| A History of a Pedophile's Wife: Memoir of a Canadian Teacher and Writer Contributor(s): Cowan, Eleanor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1631927159 ISBN-13: 9781631927157 Publisher: History of a Pedophile's Wife OUR PRICE: $12.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How could a mother not know? This is a question often asked about families where incest has occurred, and Eleanor Cowan's gripping memoir, A History of a Pedophile's Wife, steps up with answers that are courageous and heartbreaking. Cowan grew up in Quebec in the 1950s, in a large Roman Catholic family with a lethal mix of violence, addiction, and toxic pedagogy. Cowan details the dance of a survivor moving into adulthood: one step forward towards freedom, two steps back into conditioning, until a tipping point of consciousness is reached. As her memoir makes clear, that tipping point is not just a critical mass of abuse or even a touchstone of personal growth. It requires an enlarged and feminist context, permission to know the unknowable, and language to name the unspeakable. Cowan's book is a primer in compassion, especially for those of us who were abused as children and left to struggle with legacies of distrust and rage towards our mothers. It's a vivid indictment of a mother-blaming culture that protects the very institutions that perpetuate child abuse. |