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Perversion of power : sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
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Perversion of power : sexual abuse in the Catholic Church

Author: Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea
Publisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st ed
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Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, the author presents the dynamics of sexual abuse both from the victim's point of view and from the priest's; probes why the Church hierarchy, fellow priests, and lay people were silent for so long; and what drew this scandal into the public arena.
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Frawley-O'Dea, Mary Gail, 1950-
Perversion of power.
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007
(OCoLC)609005363
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea
ISBN: 9780826515469 0826515460 9780826515476 0826515479
OCLC Number: 71350368
Description: xv, 320 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgments --
Personal preface --
1. From the Bayou to Boston : a developing pattern --
2. Surviving soul murder --
[pt. 1]. Teachings and traditions implicated in the scandal --
3. Suffering, submission, and sadomasochism --
4. Embodied and gendered souls --
5. Degraded sexual desire and theologized sex --
6. Celibate sexuality and sexually active "celibates" --
7. Homosexuality : secreted and scapegoated --
[pt. 2]. The Catholic hierarchy --
8. Where were the pastors? --
9. Clerical narcissism --
[pt. 3]. Priests, laypeople, and culture --
10. Perpetrators, priests, people in the pews --
11. The secret is revealed --
Epilogue : Is everything old new again? --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.
Responsibility: Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea.
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Abstract:

Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, the author presents the dynamics of sexual abuse both from the victim's point of view and from the priest's; probes why the Church hierarchy, fellow priests, and lay people were silent for so long; and what drew this scandal into the public arena.

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