Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self

by Janet Liebman Jacobs

In Victimized Daughters Janet Liebman Jacobs offers an important contribution to the understanding of sexual trauma. Drawing on interviews with fifty incest survivors from a range of ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, she examines the effects of incest on the personality formation of victimized daughters, particularly the role the incestuous father plays in the process.

Genres: Feminism

209 pages, Paperback

First published June 27, 1994