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She's Such a Liar

Incest, Knowledge & Power-A Manifesto

Susan Osborn

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English
Shake the Table Press
07 April 2026
A daring critique of Western patriarchy and its control of women's bodies.

For centuries, incest has been framed as a private, shameful family matter-but it is also a systemic crime and a social injustice, with deep cultural, institutional, and political roots.

In this shrewd and provocative manifesto, Susan Osborn examines the ordinary social, medical, and legal systems that allow incest to remain hidden and unaddressed. She's Such a Liar offers a rigorous, accessible feminist analysis of the forces that silence women, obscure accountability, and normalize disbelief.

By situating incest within broader systems of power and knowledge production, Osborn exposes why this pervasive-and often unspoken-form of sexual violence remains so difficult to confront.
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Imprint:   Shake the Table Press
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   177g
ISBN:   9798999776600
Pages:   174
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for She's Such a Liar: Incest, Knowledge & Power-A Manifesto

""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


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