Louise Armstrong was a published writer of numerous adult and children books. A staunch feminist and activist, Armstrong had spoken widely for two decades in the United States

United States

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, Canada

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, and England

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, on the subjects of child abuse

Child abuse

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, incest

Incest

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, women issues, family violence and sexual abuse

Sexual abuse

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.

Her book, Kiss Daddy Goodnight published by Pocket Books

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 in 1978, is a groundbreaking work on incest.

Armstrong was also faculty of the Institute of Children's Literature

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 and chaired a committee on family violence for the National Women's Health Network (1979–1984).

Adult books

• Of 'Sluts' and 'Bastards': A Feminist Decodes the Child Welfare Debate (Common Courage Press, 1996)
• Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics, What Happened When Women Said Incest (Addison-Wesley, 1994; The Women's Press, 1996)
• And They Call It Help, The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children (Addison-Wesley, 1993)
• Solomon Says, A Speakout on Foster Care (Pocket Books, 1989)
• Kiss Daddy Goodnight: Ten Years Later (Pocket Books, 1987)
• The Home Front, Notes from the Family War Zone (McGraw-Hill, 1983)
• Kiss Daddy Goodnight, A Speakout on Incest (Pocket Books, 1978).
• A Child's Guide to Freud, Illustrated, Whitney Darrow, Jr.
  Whitney Darrow, Jr.
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   (Simon & Schuster, 1963).

Children's books

• How to Turn Lemons Into Money, A Child's Guide to Economics (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975).
• How to Turn Up into Down, A Child's Guide to Inflation, Depression, and Economic Recovery (HBJ, 1978).
• How to Turn War into Peace, A Child's Guide to Conflict Resolution (HBJ, 1979).
• Arthur Gets What He Spills (HBJ, 1979)
• SAVING THE BIG-DEAL BABY (E.P. Dutton, 1980)

Collected works

Contributed chapters in the following numerous collected works, both academic and trade.

• Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism (eds: Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond; Pergamon Press, 1990);
• Radically Speaking, Feminism Reclaimed (eds: Diane Bell and Renate Klein; Zed Books, 1996);
• Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, Mental Health (eds: Phyllis Chesler, Esther D. Rothblum, Ellen Cole; Haworth Press, 1995); and
• Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse: Influencing Policy and Practice (ed: Catherine Itzin; London: Routledge, 2000).

Armstrong also wrote for the following magazines: Woman's Day

Woman's Day

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, Hartford Courant Magazine, Connecticut Magazine, On the Issues

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