Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys

Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys, originally released in French as Ça arrive aussi aux garçons: l'abus sexuel au masculin, is a nonfiction book by Michel Dorais (FR). It was published in 1997 in French by VLB (FR). It was later republished by Typo éditeur. The English translation was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2002, and Isabel Denholm Meyer was the translator.

The book has testimonials from thirty sexual abuse victims from Canada.[1]

Manon Toupin of La Nouvelle Union stated the English version of the book was very successful in Canada and the United States.[2]

The translator of the English version had a son who was a sexual abuse victim while he was a child; the man died by suicide at age 29.[3]

References

  • Grondin, Anne-Marie. "YOUTH VICTIMS, COMPETENT AGENTS: A SECOND OPINION ON SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION TRAUMA" (Archive). International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (2011) 3 & 4: 450–472.
  • Meyer, Isabel Denholm. "Translator's Preface." In: Dorais, Michel. Don't Tell, Second Edition: The Sexual Abuse of Boys. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, March 5, 2002. ISBN 0773575367, 9780773575363.

Notes

  1. ^ Grondin, p. 451.
  2. ^ Toupin, Manon. "Ça arrive aussi aux garçons. L'abus sexuel au masculin de Michel Dorais Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine" (de-Michel-Dorais/1 Archive). La Nouvelle Union. January 22, 2008. Retrieved on June 12, 2014. "Son livre Ça arrive aussi aux garçons, traduit en anglais sous le titre Don't Tell : The Sexual Abuse of Boys, connaît, depuis sa sortie, un grand succès au Canada et aux États-Unis."
  3. ^ Meyer, p. xi.

Further reading

  • Gagné, Frédérick (author). Langlois, Simon (Editor). "Michel Dorais, Ça arrive aussi aux garçons, Montréal, Typo essai, 2008, 311 p" - In: Recherches sociographiques (FR), 2009, Vol.50(3), pp. 672–674 [Peer Reviewed Journal]. ISSN 0034-1282 ; E-ISSN 1705-6225 .


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