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Veiling and Unveiling: Trauma in Laura Richards’s “My Japanese Fan” and “Prince Tatters”

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies
Lacan explains that the prohibition on incest is the condition of speech. How does incest then manifest in literary texts that portray incest? In other words, can incest have a rhetorical formation as such?
Yifah Hadar
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Close Relationships

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2006
The two taboo concepts of incest and inbreeding are not so easy to detect in classical Arabic literature. True, a persistent reader of classical Arabic literature, whether belletristic or historical, is bound to meet unexpectedly rude remarks on the ...
Livnat Holtzman
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Triste tigre of Neige Sinno: A Testimonial Account and Rebuilding after the Intimate Catastrophe of Incest [PDF]

open access: yesActa Philologica
In Triste Tigre de Neige, Sinno explores incest as an “intimate catastrophe” that shatters childhood and leaves lasting scars. Through its hybrid form and fragmented narrative, the testimonial account gives voice to the unspeakable abuse and its ...
Anh Tran Hoai
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Canadian incest autobiography

open access: yes, 2003
Incest autobiography is a distinct form of trauma writing. Although the sub-genre began more than two decades ago, it remains largely unexamined. Canadian writers’ substantial contribution to incest autobiography, in particular, is not well recognized ...
Williams, Jocelyn
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Evaluation of the incest cases in Hatay

open access: yesMedicine Science, 2018
Incest is traditionally defined as any sexual activity between family members who are forbidden to marry by law. The inability of apply contemporary interview techniques to the victims and the fact that the family members do not cooperate due to intimacy
Gizem Muratoglu   +2 more
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Incest, situation, förbud, beteende

open access: yes, 1972
This paper is, as the title says. about the incest situation, about the prohibition of incest, and about incest behavior. In the first part I am discussing the incest situation in terms of "the definition of the situation".
Carlander, Ingvor,
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Incest

open access: yes, 2001
Dictionaries define incest as "sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that marriage between them is forbidden by law." However, common usage of the term embodies a wider range of sexual contacts.
Sev'er, Aysan
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[News Clip: Incest trial]

open access: yes, 1958
Video footage from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Arthur Matthew Hope, who sexually assaulted a teenage girl, receiving a sentence of life ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Intergenerational Incest Aversion

open access: yes, 2018
The biological costs of inbreeding are expected to have shaped human incest aversion. These costs depend on biological sex, relatedness, and age. Whereas previous studies have focused on investigating how these factors modulate incest aversion in ...
Debra Lieberman   +5 more
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Incest, Incest Avoidance, and Attachment: Revisiting the Westermarck Effect

open access: yes, 2019
This article defends a version of the Westermarck Effect, integrating existing clinical, biological, and philosophical dimensions to incest avoidance. By focusing on care-based attachment in primates, my formulation of the effect suggests the power of a ...
Wilson, Robert A.
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