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Article: Sexual abuse in nine north American cultures. Treatment and prevention
- Article from:
- Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Jan 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Fontes, L. A. (Ed.). (1995). Sexual abuse in nine north American cultures. Treatment and prevention. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Jean Paul Sartre believed that making public what had been kept private would become one of the great advances of the last half of this century. Sartre was right. Twenty years ago, secrecy would have precluded writing a book about sexual abuse, especially a book situating (and to some extent exposing) sexual abuse in diverse cultural contexts. This book is the first to address connections between culture and sexual abuse and makes a significant contribution to the prevention and treatment of this distressing human behavior. It demonstrates that to have a single, ...