The Politics of Survivorship Incest, Women's Literature, and Feminist Theory

A well-written, thoughtful analysis of the traditional and recent attitudes toward incest, arguing that incest survivorship should be seen as an urgent feminist political issue. Champagne (English, Syracuse U.) explains why the feminist and academic communities should embrace survivorship as a site of political action by defining its psychological terms, cultural and literary representations, historical terms, and its 1990s visibility which is drawing antifeminist campaigns like the False Memory Syndrome Foundation in its wake. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR