Growing Up Sexually(Bibliographies)

 

11/ Incest and Family (selected reading)

 

Main Index®Index Volume 3 ®Bibliography 11


Compiler’s Note:

 

In GUS I briefly problematised the issue of ‘incest’[1] in the context of age disparate erotics. Past application of Incest categories connotes a range of social dichotomies, emic and etic: kin-nonkin (this definitely is the academically and emically most heterogenous collection of notions), child-adult, sibling-nonsibling (co-reared sib-nonco-reared sib), transgression-convention, and so on. The issue an Sich appears to be triggering an ongoing medicolegal response, as well as a library of academic reflection, most notably within the confinements of psychoanalysis (together with hybrid and eclectic roots such as ‘psychohistory’), psychiatry, ethnology, historiography, socio-biology, Western philosophy. The rise of terminological and thematic collaterals and components of Incest as a discourse suggests a concurrent reformulation of the extent and nature of ‘the problem’. The space ‘incest’ is here confined to a sexological-curricular interpretation, including the ontogenetics and sociogenetics of age/life phase stratified and mediated behavioural curricula and trajectories, and in sexualibus. In adherence to its archaic meaning, ‘incest’ would address age/phase graded configurations of intrafamilial, pedagogical and alternatively hierarchical reproductive systems, as is concerned erotic competence or privilege, erotic affiliation and sexual status. This translates in the following a priori schematisation: (1) asymmetric curricular incest as either (a) ‘adolescent’ or ‘adult’ paedo- or epheboerotic phenomenon, or (b) upward eroticism supposedly directed to parents or alternative pedagogical personae (a conjecture mainly busied in psychodynamic texts and eclectively (re)interpreted in medicolegal discourse); and (2) symmetric curricular incest (‘sibling incest’, implying any situational type of sustained co-rearing and age/phase correspondence).

 

The eventual appreciator of the bibliography is requested to keep this entirely ad hoc anatomie discursive in mind.

 

Note: this bibliography may be updated monthly.

 

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  • Aston, W. G. (1909) The Incest Tabu, Man 9:164-8
  • Barlow, Kathleen; Meigs, Anna. (2002) Beyond Taboo: Imagining Incest. American Anthropologist Vol. 104 (1): 38-49
  • Bell, V. (1995) Bio-Politics and the Spectre of Incest: Sexuality and/in the Family, in, in Robertson, R., Featherstone, M. & Lash, S. (Eds.) Global Modernities. London: Sage Publications Ltd, p227-43
  • Bolen, R. M. (2001) Child Sexual Abuse: Its Scope and Our Failure. New York, NY, US: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
  • Brain, J. L. (1977) Sex, incest, and death: initiation rites reconsidered, Current Anthropol 18,2:191-208
  • Breiner, S. J. (1985) Child abuse patterns: Comparison of ancient Western civilization and traditional China, Analytic Psychother & Psychopathol 2,1:27-50
  • Bryant, C. D. (1977) Sexual Deviancy and Social Proscription. New York: Human Sciences Press, p304-5
  • Bullough, V. L. (1990) History in adult human sexual behaviour with children and adolescents in western societies, in Feierman, J. (Ed.) Pedophilia, Biosocial Dimensions. Springer-Verlag, New York, p69-90
  • Campbell, D. (1983) Sex – a family affair, in Segal, L. (Ed.) What is to be done about the family? Harmondsworth: Penguin
  • Coldrey, B. M. (1996) The sexual abuse of children: the historical perspectives, Studies 85:370-80
  • DeMause, L. (1991) The Universality of Incest, J Psychohist 19,2:123-64
  • Diggs, Stephen Michael (2001) A synthetic theory of human incest avoidance, DAI-B 61(9-B):5026
  • Erhardt, V. (1993) A Phenomenological Study of the Father’s Experience of Erotic Response to the Daughter. PhD Dissertation, GeorgiaStateUniversity [DAI-B 54/10, p5424, April 1994]
  • Erickson, Mark T. (in press?) Current Clinical Understanding of Incest and the Evolutionary Perspective In Incest, in Durham, William & Wolf, Arthur P. (Eds.) The Incest Taboo and Incest Avoidance: Knowledge at the Turn of the Century. Stanford University Press / Journal on Line Ecology, Psychiatry and Mental Health [http://www.ecopsyonline.org/n-05/pdf/incesto.pdf] [37p]
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  • Fine, A. (1993) Laieos pedophile et infanticide, Rev Franc Psychanal 57,2:515-26
  • Finkelhor, D. (1981) Sex between siblings: sex play, incest and aggression, in Constantine, L. & Martinson, F. (Eds., 1981) Children and Sex: New Findings, New Perspectives. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., p129-49
  • Finkelhor, David (1991) Commentary on “The universality of incest”, Psychohist 19,2:218
  • Fortenberry, J Dennis & Hill, Robert F (1986) Sister-sister incest as a manifestation of multigenerational sexual abuse, J Adolescent Health Care 7,3:202-4
  • Foucault, M. (Ewald, F. et al., eds., 1999) Les Anormaux; Cours au Collège de France (1974-1975). [Paris]: Gallimard / Seuil
  • Fox, J. R. (1962) Sibling incest, J Sociol 13:128-50
  • Frances, Vera & Frances, Allen The Incest Taboo and Family Structure, Family Process 15,2:235-44
  • Gabb, J. (2001) Querying the discourses of love: An analysis of contemporary patterns of love and the stratification of intimacy within lesbian families, Eur J Women’s Studies 8,3:313-28
  • Gittins, D. (1992) The Family in Question. Basingstoke: Macmillan, ch9
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  • Hadreas, P. (2000) Aristotle and Incest. APA Eastern Division, 97th Annual Meeting, December 27 – 30
  • Hadreas, P. (2003) Phenomenology and the incest taboo, J Phenomenological Psychol 33,2:203-22
  • Hearn, J. (1988) Child Abuse: Violence and Sexualities Towards Young People, Sociology 22, 4
  • Hendrix, L. & Schneider, M. A. (1999) Assumptions on Sex and Society in the Biosocial Theory of Incest, Cross-Cultural Res 33,2:193-218
  • Howitt, D. (1995) Paedophiles and Sexual Offences Against Children. Chichester [etc.]: J. Wiley & Sons, p231-7
  • Immerman, R. S. & Mackey, W. C. (1997) An additional facet of the incest taboo: A protection of the mating-strategy template, J Genetic Psychol 158,2:151-64
  • Johnson, W. (1977) Childhood sexuality: the last of the great taboos? SIECUS Report 5,4:1,2,15
  • Jones, I. H. ([1992] 2000) Cultural and historical aspects of male sexual assault, in Mezey, G. C. & King, M. B. (Eds.) Male Victims of Sexual Assault. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press,  p113-24
  • Kahr, B. (1991) The Sexual Molestation of Children: Historical Perspectives, J Psychohist 19,2:191-214
  • Killias, M. (1990) The historic origins of penal statutes concerning sexual activities involving children and adolescents, J Homosex 20,1/2:41-6
  • Kitahara, M. (1989) Incest – Japanese Style, J Psychohist 16,4:445-50
  • Kitzinger, J. (1997) Who Are You Kidding? Children, Power and the Struggle Against Sexual Abuse, in A. James and A. Prout (Eds.) Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood. London: Falmer

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  • La Fontaine, J. (1990) Child Sex Abuse. Cambridge: Polity
  • La Fontaine, J. S. (1988) Child sexual abuse and the incest taboo: practical problems and theoretical issues, Man 23:1-18

§          Laviola, M. (1989) Effects of older brother-younger sister incest: a review of four cases, J Fam Viol 4,3:259-74

§          Laviola, M. (1992) Effects of older-brother-younger sister incest: a study of the dynamics of 17 cases, Child Abuse & Negl 16:409-21

  • Le Guen, C. (1974) The formation of the transference: or the Laius complex in the armchair, Int J Psychoanal 55,4:505-18
  • Lieberman, D. & Symons, D. (1998) Sibling Incest Avoidance: From Westermarck to Wolf, Quarterly Review of Biology 73 (4), 463-466
  • Lieberman, D., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2002) Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Accepted 25 November 2002
  • Lieberman, D., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (in press?). The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms: an evolutionary psychological approach. In Evolution and the Moral Emotions: Appreciating Edward Westermarck. (A. Wolf and J. P.Takala, Eds.)  Stanford, CA: StanfordUniversity Press
  • Martin, E. J. (1995) Incest/child sexual abuse: historical perspectives, J Holistic Nursing 13,1:7-18

§         Mason, T. (nd) Incest: Frontiers and Syncretism. Online paper, at http://perso.club-internet.fr/tmason/WebPages/Publications/Incest_Frontiers.htm#B26

§         Masters, R. E. L. (1962) Forbidden Sexual Behavior and Morality: An Objective Re-Examination of Perverse Sex Practices in Different Cultures. New York: Julian Press, p363-411

  • Money, J. (1980) Love and Love Sickness. Baltimore [etc.]: JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press
  • Mönkemeyer, K. (1993) Kindliche Sexualität Heute: Tabus, Konflikte, Lösungen. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Quadriga
  • Morgan, D. H. J. (1996) Family Connections. Cambridge: Polity, ch5
  • Mullis, J. S. & Baunach, D. M. (2000) Surveilling Pedophilia: Sexual Deviance and the Quandaries of Social Control. Paper for the Society for the Study of Social Problems

§         Murdock, G. P. (1949) Social Structure. New York: Macnillan, p318-9

  • Nelson, J. A. & Meller, J. R. (1994) Incest taboo and sexual abuse, in Krivacska, J. J. & Money, J. (Eds.) The Handbook of Forensic Sexology: Biomedical & Criminological Perspectives. New York: Prometheus Books, p80-97
  • Nelson, J. A. (1986) Incest: Self-Report Findings from a Nonclinical Sample, J Sex Res 22,4:463-77
  • Nicolaiedis, G. & Nicolaiedis, N. (1993) Incorporation, pédophile, inceste, Rev Franç Psychanal 57,2 :507-14
  • O’Brien, M. J. (1991) Taking sibling incest seriously, in Patton, M. Q. (Ed.) Family Sexual Abuse. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, p75-92
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  • Owen M. (2001) More than just child’s play: A study on sibling incest. Australia’s Inaugural Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Conference “Seeking Solutions”, Gold Coast, Australia,5-7 September 2001

§         Parker, S. (1987) The Waning of the Incest Taboo, Legal Studies Forum 11,2:205-21

  • Parsons, T. (1954) ‘The Incest Taboo in Relation to Social Structure and the Socialisation of the Child, Br J Sociol 5:101-17
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  • Pauncz, A. (1952) Psychopathology of Shakespeare’s King Lear: exemplification of the Lear Complex (a new interpretation), Am Imago9:57-78
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