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Family Secrets

Name: Family Secrets
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781479855599
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Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico

Szerző: Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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"My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them," confides 'Elisa', a young woman who r...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2015

oldal

352

EAN

9781479855599

ISBN

1479855596

Enbook ID

09282086

Kiadó

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Súly

632

Méretek

152 x 229 x 22

Teljes leírás

"My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them," confides 'Elisa', a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw their lives irrevocably changed in the wake of childhood and adolescent incest. In Mexico, a patriarchal, religious society where women are expected to make themselves sexually available to men and where same-sex experiences for both men and women bring great shame, incest is easily hidden, seldom discussed, and rarely reported to authorities. Through gripping, emotional narrative, Gonzalez-Lopez brings the deeply troubling, hidden, and unspoken issues of incest and sexual violence in Mexican families to light. Gonzalez-Lopez contends that family and cultural structures in Mexican life enable incest and the culture of silence that surrounds it. She examines the strong bonds of familial obligation between parents and children, brothers and sisters, and elders and youth that, in the case of incest, can morph into sexual obligation; the codes of honor and shame reinforced by tradition and the Church, discouraging openness about sexual violence and trauma; the double standards of morality and stereotypes about sexuality that leave girls and women and gender nonconforming boys and men especially vulnerable to sexual abuse. Together, these cultural factors create a perfect storm for generations upon generations of unspoken incest, a cycle that takes great courage and strength to heal from and overcome. A riveting account, Family Secrets turns a feminist and sociological lens on a disturbing trend that has gone unnoticed for far too long.