Confronting Family Sexual Abuse “Why did you use the word ‘manifesto’ in the title of She’s Such a Liar?” This question was recently put to me by a friend. I wrote She’s Such a Liar in the hope that it would serve as a clarion call, I explained, a plea that we change...
Pete Hegseth’s call for “male standards” in the military echoes a far older code—one built on domination, denial, and silence. Image: Andrew Geddes in the late 1870s. From Louise Barnett, Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army’s Notorious Incest Trial (Hill and Wang,...
This is the last of a two-part post that forms an appeal to feminists; anti-sexual violence and anti-incest activists; social justice activists; anti-sexists; sexual violence prevention advocates; and all who are simply fed up with our culture’s indifference to sexual...
This is the first of a two-part post that forms an appeal to feminists; anti-sexual violence and anti-incest activists; social justice activists; anti-sexists; sexual violence prevention advocates; and all who are simply fed up with with our culture’s indifference to...
It started this way. In graduate school, while reading a Victorian novel about a father-daughter relationship, I was surprised to discover an incest theme in the book. A quick trip to the library indicated that no other scholar had yet picked this up. Thrilled by my...