6 Best nonfiction books like Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword) by Judith Lewis Herman

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Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

By: Judith Lewis Herman

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with profession…

"The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4"

-Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

"The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4"

-Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

"The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4"

-Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

"Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword) by Judith Lewis Herman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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2. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. The Flight Attendant

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.63

Format: 416 pages,

Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airli… read more

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  • crime
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4. The Incest Diary

By: Anonymous

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

"In the fairy tales about father-daughter incest--'The Girl Without Hands,' 'Thousand Furs,' the or… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

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"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

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6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

7. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

4.06

Format: 663 pages,

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more

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8. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

9. The End of Alice

By: A.M. Homes

4.06

Format: 368 pages,

From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be Forgiven Only a work of such searing, meticu… read more

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10. The Rules of Attraction

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set at a small affluent liberal-arts college in New England eighties, The Rules of Attractionis a s… read more

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11. You Can Heal Your Life

By: Louise L. Hay

3.92

Format: 594 pages,

Louise's key message in this powerful work is: "If we are willing to do the mental work, almost any… read more

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12. The Kiss

By: Kathryn Harrison

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

We meet at airports. We meet in cities where we've never been before. We meet where no one will rec… read more

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13. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

By: Lundy Bancroft

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft--a counselor who specializes in working with abus… read more

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14. Lapvona

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.53

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more

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"But such was death - it had nothing to say."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

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15. Fluids

By: May Leitz

3.43

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

A woman, desperate for companionship. Another woman desperate for acceptance. Love and obsession qu… read more

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16. Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

By: Marsha M. Linehan

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell."

-Marsha M. Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

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17. Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

By: Judith Lewis Herman

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with profession… read more

Similar categories in Judith Lewis Herman's Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword) book and Judith Lewis Herman's Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

  • social science
  • feminism
  • politics
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
"The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4"

-Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

"Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

"The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4"

-Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

"For many people, the shock of sexual abuse pales before the shock of this mother’s statement, “I wish the fuck I never had her."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

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18. The Best Kept Secret: Sexual Abuse of Children

By: Florence Rush

4.28

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A study which shows that sexual abuse of children has an extensive history and has been - and still… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

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