Family Secrets

Name: Family Secrets
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781479869138
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Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico

Автор: Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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

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Автор

Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2015

страници

352

EAN

9781479869138

ISBN

1479869139

Enbook ID

09282096

Издател

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Теглоt

524

Размери

229 x 154 x 23

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"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.

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