Forbidden Femininity: Child Sexual Abuse and Female Sexuality

by Colin Crawford

Contradicting the socially informed view of the feminine and maternal, analytical psychotherapist Crawford (applied social studies, U. of Ulster-Jordanstown) draws on themes of female sexuality as identified in academic, literary, research, and popular publications. He examines the reality of maternal sexuality as seen by Freud and others, the socially required suppression of female sexuality, clinical case histories and survivors' accounts suggesting a sadistic impulse to abuse, accounts of maternal sexuality from empirical research, evidence from accounts of feminine sexual fantasy, and the prevalence and nature of female sexual abuse. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997