Dr. Susan Osborn is an award-winning author, educator, and cultural critic whose work bridges feminist scholarship, activism, and storytelling. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, American Scholar, and Mothering. She is the author of Surviving the Wreck and Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives and serves as director of The Writing Center of Princeton.
""In this bold and informative manifesto, Susan Osborn argues that incest is not merely a private family tragedy or a rare psychological aberration. It is a deeply embedded system of power-sustained by institutional complicity and the strategic discrediting of those who speak. Osborn exposes how Western social structures, particularly the medical establishment, rush to contain it. The result is a powerful machinery of disbelief that preserves hierarchy and suppresses knowledge. Clear-eyed and incisive, She's Such a Liar reframes incest as a problem of knowledge and power-and calls for a collective reckoning with the systems that make truth dangerous."" -Jennifer Joy Freyd, Ph.D., Professor Emerit, Psychology, University of Oregon; founder and president, Center for Institutional Courage