Victimized daughters : incest and the development of the female self / Janet Liebman Jacobs.

New York : Routledge, 1994.

xiii, 209 pages ; 24 cm

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.

Copy 1. Former Women's Health Library shelfmark: Fpn

1. Introduction -- 2. Incest and the Destruction of the Mother-Daughter Bond -- 3. Idealization of the Perpetrator -- 4. Sexual Violence and the Empathic Female Self -- 5. Identification with the Aggressor -- 6. Revictimization and the Divided Consciousness of Aggression and Abuse -- 7. The Body as Self -- 8. Change and Transformation: Reconstructing the Female Self.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.