Showing titles in Sexual Abuse & Harassment

Jessica Renee was 11 years old when her stepfather began routinely raping and sexually assaulting her. Only when she was 15 and her boyfriend asked the right questions did the truth come to light—a terrible truth that her mother chose not to believe. Backed by a church community that believed a woman’s duty was to support her husband above all else, Jessica’s mother and countless other family and friends turned against her, labeling her a sinner even as her rapist was convicted.

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University, the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a campus to date, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault’s social roots

In the context of a clear and bracing legal history of accountability for sexual assault and the legal recognition of sexual harassment, Nussbaum confronts three "citadels of pride" - the judiciary, the arts, and sports. Exposing prideful privilege in the intellectual world, unpunished narcissism in the arts, and toxic masculinity and corruption in American sports, she discusses egregious cases of male entitlement leading to sexual abuse and exploitation. 

What cultural messages do they receive about work and home, about sex and their bodies? Why do so many reject the feminist label? This is an original, often hilarious look at role models and available options in the age of social media and sexual frankness. With piercing insight, Goldsworthy lays bare the dilemmas of being a woman today and asks how women can truly become free agents.

Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the...

This is a workbook geared towards helping people that have experienced abuse work through the deception, silence, and secrecy. It is an instrument to reassure victims that they are loved by God and have a purpose to flourish on Earth. It gives examples and ways of getting help that will lead to recovery and healing.

From the creators of Molestation Monologues (Voice Arts Awards nominee) and Secrets Unleashed Game: Talk Play Heal, comes a new audiobook on sexual abuse - specifically child sexual abuse - and why some survivors may choose to remain silent. The audiobook jumps around a bit as if one minute they are talking to a fellow survivor, and the next minute they are talking to a caretaker or friend, but one thing is consistent throughout: their deep compassion and care for survivors of abuse.

Drawing on examples from around the world—from Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa to Saudi Arabia, the Americas and Europe—Gqola traces the construction and machinations of the female fear factory by exposing its lies, myths and seductions. She shows how seemingly disparate effects like driving bans, higher education rape, sexual harassment and femicide are all premised on the construction of people, mostly women, as female, and thereafter the use of fear as a tool of patriarchal subjugation and punishment.

Sex is such an intimate topic historically wrapped in shame and when someone shares they were sexually abused, we may not know how to respond. With recent #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements, we are learning just how many men, women, boys, and girls have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a...

Winner of the 2021 IRE Book Award Winner of the 2022 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction In the age of #MeToo, learn how brave whistleblowers have dared to lift the federal court’s veil of secrecy to expose powerful judges who appear to defy laws they...

Moderne Männlichkeit zerstört die Welt – doch der Feminismus kann uns retten. Mitreißend analysiert Laurie Penny die Krise der Demokratie, die Krise weißer Männlichkeit und die Rückzugsgefechte derer, die Angst vor Machtverlust haben. Angesichts einer Gesellschaft, die noch immer von Ausbeutung und Zwang geprägt ist, fordert Penny eine Kultur des Consent.

Isoke è arrivata in Italia a vent'anni: le avevno promesso un lavoro di commessa, si è ritrovata a vivere in schiavitù. Oggi, finalmente libera, racconta la vita, la tratta, i clienti, i sogni delle ragazze da marciapiede. I diritti di questo libro contribuiranno a sostenere le campagne e le iniziative del progetto "La ragazza di Benin City".

This is a story of hope. It is my personal experience of childhood sexual abuse and its impact on me from childhood through to adulthood. It details how I used alcohol and drugs as a means of coping with the long-lasting harm of abuse and its impact on my life. It describes my journey down the destructive path of addiction until finally, with the loving support of my family, I was able to disentangle myself from the grip of alcohol and drugs and live free from the debilitating harm caused by childhood sexual abuse.

The #MeToo movement has focused public attention on the issue of sexual consent. People of all genders, from all walks of life, have stepped forward to tell their stories of sexual harassment and violation. In a predictable backlash, others have taken to mass media to inquire plaintively if "flirting" is now forbidden. This book presents key strands of feminist thought on the subject of sexual consent from across academic and activist communities and covers the history of research on consent in such fields as psychology and feminist legal studies.

Bystander intervention is simply overcoming that “freeze” instinct and getting back to the very human desire to take care of one another. It’s not about being the hero, strapping on spandex, and saving the day. And it certainly isn’t about sacrificing your own safety. From the nonprofit organization Hollaback!, I’ve Got Your Back teaches listeners the ins and outs of bystander intervention using Hollaback!’s methodology: the 5D’s of bystander intervention—distract, delegate, document, delay, and direct.  

Remarques gênantes, sifflements, insultes, regards insistants, voire même violences physiques... D'après une étude de l'IFOP (avril 2019), 8 Françaises sur 10 ont déjà été confrontées à au moins une forme d'atteinte ou d'agression sexuelle dans la rue ou dans les transports en commun. Le 10 juillet 2020, Emanouela Todorova, victime deux jours plus tôt du harcèlement de rue, créait un compte Instagram avec le but de recenser les témoignages des victimes de propos sexistes et de harcèlements de rue.

Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power and aggressive in asserting the prerogatives of the Vatican. His account of Pell’s career focuses on his response as a man, a priest, an archbishop and prince of the church to the scandal that has engulfed the Catholic world in the last 30 years. This is the story of a cleric slow to see what was happening around him; torn by the contest between his church and its victims; and slow to realise that the Catholic Church cannot, in the end, escape secular scrutiny.

TW: Harcèlement sexuel. "L'impossible est devenu possible. Exit les peurs, les doutes, la souffrance dans laquelle j'étais prisonnière. J'ai une furieuse envie de vivre pleinement et je souhaite que ma vie soit belle, épanouissante, remplie d'amour, de joies, de rêves à réaliser." Après avoir subi un viol alors qu'elle avait 15 ans, Anya a mis vingt ans à sortir du silence, à surmonter son passé et à trouver la paix intérieure.

Charmaine Maeer says she was beaten and repeatedly raped during just 10 days service as a soldier at Whittington Barracks in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. This audiobook was first published in paperback format in 2008, and although a very harrowing and deserved story, it never received the attention it deserved due to the nature of the claims made by Charmaine Mary Nona Maeer.

Y LA CULPA NO ERA MÍA, NI DÓNDE ESTABA NI CÓMO VESTÍA. EL VIOLADOR ERES TÚ. Un violador en tu camino, octubre 2019, colectivo LASTESIS Tenemos rabia. Rabia ante la invisibilización constante de nuestros abusos. [...] Rabia y miedo de ser agredidas, asesinadas, olvidadas. [...] Nos tocaron...