1st Edition

Interrogating Incest Feminism, Foucault and the Law

By Vikki Bell Copyright 1993
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Winner of British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 1993 Within feminism incest has often been subsumed under a discussion of sexual violence and abuse. Yet, important as this is, there has been little account of how feminist work itself relates to other ways of talking about and understanding incest. In Interrogating Incest Vikki Bell focuses on the issue of incest and its... Read more
Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction : Interrogating Incest 2. A Continual Contest: Foucault and Feminism 3. Familiar Stories: The Feminist Analyses of Incest 4. Telling and Taboo: Feminism within the Foucauldian Landscape 5. What's the Problem? The Construction and Criminalisation of Incest 6. Making Monsters, Locating Sex: Foucault and Feminism in Debate 7. Conclusion

Biography

Vikki Bell