Recommended Reading
Mother-daughter Sexual Abuse
*highly recommended
* readily available at BarnesandNoble.com
*linked directly (click title) and available at Amazon.com
*recommended for survivors
BOOKS
* * * * Deepest Wound: How a journey to El Salvador Led to Healing from Mother-daughter Incest by Linda Crockett
* * * Mirror Images (novel) by Linda Gray Sexton
* * Searching for Mercy Street: My journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton by Linda Gray Sexton
* * * Broken child by Marcia Cameron
* * * Thicker than Water (novel) by Kathryn Harrison
* * * * Lady God (novel) by Lesa Luders
* * * Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
* * Breath, eyes, memory (novel) by Edwidge Danticat
* * * * From Victims to Survivors: Reclaimed voices of women sexually abused in childhood by females by Juliann Mitchell and Jill Morse
* Female Sexual Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know Julia Hislop
* * Female Sexual Abuse of Children by Michele Elliott
It was the year of the scalping: Poems about emotional incest, sexually motivated abuse, mother-daughter incest, father-daughter incest by Paula S. MacIan
* * Women who sexually abuse children: From research to clinical practice by Jacqui Saradjian and Helga G.I. Hanks
* * Silently Seduced: When parents make children partners by Kenneth M. Adams (deals with mother-son, father-daughter abuse)
* * From Generation to generation: Understanding sexual attraction to children by Anne Stirling Hastings
* When She Was Bad by Patricia Pearson
* * * When You're Ready: A Woman's healing from childhood physical and sexual abuse by her mother by Kathy Evert and Inie Bijkerk
* Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin and Gebhard (1953)
* Forbidden Femininity: Child Sexual Abuse and Female Sexuality by Colin Crawford
* * Women Sex Offenders: Treatment and Dynamics by Adele Mayer
* Female Sexual Abusers by Fay Honey Knopp
* * A House Divided: Suspicions of Mother-daughter Incest (fact-based novel) by Paul Abramson and Steven Pinkerton
The following books are published by The Safer Society Press, part of the Safer Society Foundation, Inc. They also sell the video (27 min., $80-$90), Stories No One Wants to Hear by Mara Alper, featuring survivors of mother-daughter abuse
* * * The Last Secret: Daughters sexually abused by mothers by Bobbie Rosencrans (published previously under the name, Kathy Evert)
* Female Sexual Abusers: Three views by Patricia Davin, Teresa Dunbar, & Julia Hislop
* * Female Sexual Offenders: An exploratory study by Ruth Matthews and Kathleen Speltz
* * Female Adolescent Sexual Abusers: An exploratory study of mother-daughter dynamics with implications for treatment by Marcia T. Turner and Tracey N. Turner
* Women and Men who Sexually Abuse Children by C.M. Allen
