Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics
TenBrink, Carole, Herizons
ROCKING THE CRADLE OF SEXUAL POLITICS
The reason the New York Times called this book "brilliant and frightening" is that Armstrong's fierce voice tells hard truths. She analyses what happened when women went public, and tried to get legal support to fight incest, from the 1970s through the early 1990s. While the facts are primarily American, one can readily see the same trends at work here in Canada.
TRUTH ONE. Raising the issue of incest, seriously, in the 1970s, brought society dangerously close to the edge of upheaval. If faced squarely, incest would have brought a devastating understanding of the underpinnings of male social dominance. Think about it. If about …
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Publication information:
Article title: Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics.
Contributors: TenBrink, Carole - Author.
Magazine title: Herizons.
Volume: 10.
Issue: 3
Publication date: Summer 1996.
Page number: 34.
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