In Victimized Daughters Janet Liebman Jacobs offers an important contribution to the understanding of sexual trauma. Drawing on interviews with fifty incest survivors from a range of ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, she examines the effects of incest on the personality formation of victimized daughters, particularly the role the incestuous father plays in the process.
Janet Liebman Jacobs is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Divine Disenchantment: Deconverting FromNew Religions and her work has appeared in the Journalfor the Scientific Study of Religion, SIGNS: Journal ofWomen, Culture and Society, Sociological Analysis, and Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion.