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- ISBN 0-9698064-7-7
- $19.95
- Trauma/Health/Women's Studies
- 160pp
- 1999
Adult educator and incest survivor Tanya Lewis analyzes everyday life after the return of incest memories. Challenging the notion of individual healing until "normal", Lewis re-describes survivors of child sexual abuse as "living beside the violation" and super-cognizant of social relations – possessing and using the survival techniques of childhood. This lucid, accessible revisioning offers a new theoretical framework through a perceptive analysis of everyday life after the return of incest memories.
"Canadian author Tanya Lewis has written a remarkable book that moves between the personal and the political with powerful clarity and insight. Profoundly moving, this scholarly feminist book is an inspiring account of one woman's recovered memories and her attempts to renegotiate her relationship with herself and the world. "
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"An insightful, liberating and profoundly important contribution . . ."
Elly Danica