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charst's review
4.0
First of all sorry to put a potentially triggering topic on everyone's feed, I hope putting it under a spoiler will hide it.
Overall I was pleasently surprised by the author's handling of this topic. I still found it a very difficult read and I wouldn't recommend it readily. Cases of incest and its effects are described explicitly (if always in strictly clinical context), and I can't say if (other) survivors will find the author's dissection helpful or healing, but I did set 16 bookmarks and would've set more had I not run out, so I must have taken something from it.
Unfortunately, in my opinion lgbt survivors are treated somewhat strangely by the author, who chooses to stress at several points that homosexual incest is 'generally experienced as a positive', which strikes me as an odd side-note to give after explaining that the effects are generally the same no matter the sexual identity of the child. But that could be me being sensitive.
I also feel that the author blunders at addressing racism as a factor despite part of Ch. 13 'Special Populations' being devoted to ethnicity, especially in contrast with a following section on the complication survivors with mental or physical disabilities face, in which she illustrates how ableism strengthens the double-bind the survivor is under very well and movingly.
Overall I was pleasently surprised by the author's handling of this topic. I still found it a very difficult read and I wouldn't recommend it readily. Cases of incest and its effects are described explicitly (if always in strictly clinical context), and I can't say if (other) survivors will find the author's dissection helpful or healing, but I did set 16 bookmarks and would've set more had I not run out, so I must have taken something from it.
Unfortunately, in my opinion lgbt survivors are treated somewhat strangely by the author, who chooses to stress at several points that homosexual incest is 'generally experienced as a positive', which strikes me as an odd side-note to give after explaining that the effects are generally the same no matter the sexual identity of the child. But that could be me being sensitive.
I also feel that the author blunders at addressing racism as a factor despite part of Ch. 13 'Special Populations' being devoted to ethnicity, especially in contrast with a following section on the complication survivors with mental or physical disabilities face, in which she illustrates how ableism strengthens the double-bind the survivor is under very well and movingly.
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