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Incest and the incest taboo are topics which have attracted the attention of writers from all areas of the social and medical sciences — anthropology, sociology, psychology, and psychoanalysis have all contributed to a vast body of literature on the subject. It is not within the ambit of this chapter to address all the issues and questions raised by this literature; discussion will necessarily be limited to the professional literature which has a direct bearing on the way that social agencies in the twentieth century have understood and dealt with child sexual abuse.
This article was first published in Breaking the Silence: A Report Based upon the Findings of the Women Against Incest Phone-in Survey (Haberfield, New South Wales, 1985). The Power Theory was first printed in New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services Child Sexual Abuse Trainers’ Package, Sydney, May 1986.
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Waldby, C., Clancy, A., Emetchi, J., Summerfield, C. (1989). Theoretical perspectives on father-daughter incest. In: Driver, E., Droisen, A. (eds) Child Sexual Abuse. Women in Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20020-7_3
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