Mothers of Incest Survivors

<p> . . . an intellectually stimulating discussion of important theories and an enthrallingly personal reading experience. --Elizabeth L. Navarre\<br /><br /> . . . the one book we've been waiting for. . . . The book succeeds admirably in exploring six women's stories with a great deal of respect. --Changes: An International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy<br /><br /> . . . poignant revelations . . . Johnson is able to paint an individualized portrait of each woman and avoids twisting their stories to fit some theory. --Publishers Weekly<br /><br /> . . . a gritty glimpse of a painful struggle and a framework for rethinking our perspectives and prejudices. --The Women's Review of Books<br /><br />Janis Tyler Johnson has collected the stories of six mothers who relate in their own words their experiences as mothers of incest victims. Their accounts challenge the collusive mother-blaming theory of incest families. Mothers tell how they discovered the incest secret the ways they responded and the meanings that incest held for themselves their daughters husbands and families.</p>