Everybody's Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America

by Gillian Harkins

In the 1990s, a boom in autobiographical novels and memoirs about incest emerged, making incest one of the hottest topics to connect daytime TV talk shows, the self-help industry, and the literary publishing circuit. In Everybody's Family Romance, Gillian Harkins places this proliferation of incest literature at the center of transformations in the political and economic climate of the late twentieth century.

Harkins's interdisciplinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816653488
• ISBN13: 9780816653485
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"