Perversion of power : sexual abuse in the Catholic Church /
Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea.
- 1st ed.
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.
- xv, 320 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-304) and index.
From the Bayou to Boston: a developing pattern -- Surviving soul murder -- Suffering, submission, and sadomasochism -- Embodied and gendered souls -- Degraded sexual desire and theologized sex -- Celibate sexuality and sexually active "celibates" -- Homosexuality: secreted and scapegoated -- Where were the pastors? -- Clerical narcissism -- Perpetrators, priests, people in the pews -- The secret is revealed -- Epilogue: Is everything old new again?.