- Betrayal Trauma
- This book lays bare the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but also, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Father-Daughter Incest
- Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword, Herman offers a lucid and thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published.
- Paperback 2000
- Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans
In only a few species do males strategically employ violence to control female sexuality. Why are females routinely abused in some species, but never in others? And can the study of such unpleasant behavior help us to understand the evolution of men’s violence against women? The book presents extensive field research and analysis to evaluate sexual coercion in a range of species—including all of the great apes and humans—and to clarify its role in shaping social relationships among males, among females, and between the sexes.
- Hardcover 2009
- What Trouble I Have Seen
- In the first sustained history and interdisciplinary study of violence toward wives in America,David Peterson del Mar reflects on the changes in American society that have affected violence: wife-beating was quietly condoned until the spread of an ethos of self-restraint in the late nineteenth century; the practice increased with a vengeance with the florescence of expressive individualism during the twentieth century.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998