Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics: What Happened When Women Said Incest

Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics is a very important, educational book about some of the root causes of incest (particularly father-daughter incest). This is a very informative and revealing book on our societal response to the uncovering of incest. As a survivor of incest, Louise has developed a deep understanding of how incest is perpetuated through societal beliefs. These beliefs are woven so deeply into our society... Read Full Review

The author of this book, Louise Armstrong, is a woman of courage and unafraid of speaking her mind, despite the very delicate subject on child sexual abuse. In her book, she portrays child sexual abuse as being a problem that the male dominated society manipulates and maintains with almost every means available. The view that through time, women have been held responsible for the sexual abnormalities of a certain percentage... Read Full Review

Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics is the best social analysis of incest and child sexual abuse that I have ever read. The first woman to publicly acknowledge her status as a survivor in the USA (on the Phil Donahue show), Louise now looks back to see how far we have come since then: from the shocked response of the television audience to a growing profit-making industry in "healing" the survivor. The politics, says... Read Full Review

This is an excellent look back at where incest has been and its legal and social status in the US now. It is an unsettling looking at how incest has been allowed in our society by the legal system past and present, but also a look at how our society focuses on the `victim/survivor' not on the perpetrator. The conclusion Armstrong makes is one most men do not like: men have the power over women and misuse it.

I am reading the book, I feel the anger, the frustration of being part of a society that still denies the existence of incest while blaming mothers for it. I am starting to understand better the system in which incest can exist and be perpetuated, I can see how the system works where a child can be put in foster care while her/his abuser stays safe in his home. Didn't men prefer when we,women used to shut the fuck up and let... Read Full Review