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Über Jahrzehnte sind junge Frauen in der Musikindustrie benutzt und diskriminiert worden: Egal ob Fans, Groupies, Journalistinnen, Mitarbeiterinnen oder Sängerinnen selbst - der Mythos von Sex, Drugs und Rock’n Roll, das viele Geld und das extreme Machtgefälle haben sexualisierter Gewalt über alle Genres hinweg den Boden bereitet. Die Diskussion um die Vorwürfe gegen Rammstein-Sänger Till Lindemann zeigt: Diese Zustände brechen jetzt auf. Frauen wehren sich. Und sie finden endlich Gehör. Dieses Buch erzählt vom Machtmissbrauch in der Musikindustrie.

Ce livre est une bouée de secours pour les victimes d'agressions sexuelles en détresse. On évalue à 165 000 par an le nombre d'enfants subissant des violences sexuelles. Dans le même temps, 94 000 femmes adultes déclarent avoir été victimes d'un viol ou d'une tentative de viol et dans 45 % des cas, l'auteur est un conjoint ou un ex-conjoint.Ces violences étant majoritairement intrafamiliales, les victimes se taisent, paralysées par la honte, la culpabilité, prostrées et en état de choc.

Over 100 Non-Fictional Sexual Abuse experiences are documented in this powerful enlightening book. Written in a comprehensive format, it explores the emotions of rape victims who range from two weeks to eighty-four years of age. The rapists--from every walk of life--vary from the “well respected church” minister to the “well adjusted” neighbor. It reveals how an experience like this can become the root or other problems when left unresolved. Most victims don't realize the connection.

“A thrilling page-turner about the pursuit of justice” (New York Post), this is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the corrupt system that supported them, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented their victims for more than a...

He was a respected family man, beneath whose trivial appearance unimagined abysses slumbered. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the most serious crimes known to our criminal law. Now he has written his biography, which he entrusted to the Viennese lawyer Astrid Wagner. She had many conversations with him that allow a deep insight into his soul. We learn about what led him this far: his fears, motives, dreams and fantasies; how he lives now; his attitude towards life, sexuality and death.

Una guía para lidiar con ellos en todos los ámbitos de nuestra vida y evitar caer en sus redes. De la mano de la psicóloga Júlia Pascual aprenderás cómo se construyen y funcionan las personalidades narcisistas, qué mecanismos emplean y los efectos que producen en los demás, ya sea en el...

For many women, creeps are a serious, ubiquitous, pervasive problem. They seem to be everywhere. Not only do they pester us in public, but some are capable of worming their way into our social life, poisoning our experiences. For many men, creeps are like unicorns: They hear about them a lot, but they never actually see one. Even when they do, they don’t understand what the fuss is all about. This books aims to bridge that gap by explaining the nature of creeps, how and why they manage to infiltrate our social circles, and how we can best deal with them in a safe and timely manner.

Fresh out of college, Meghan Tschanz left everything to join a mission trip around the globe, and quickly witnessed oppression experienced by women that she never thought possible. Over the next several years, she befriended women around the globe who had survived sex trafficking, female genital mutilation, and violence so extreme Meghan wondered at the women's survival. Through listening to their stories, Meghan started to notice a pattern - one that pointed to systems of injustice that harmed and held women back - systems, Meghan realized, she was often complicit in.

From awful beginnings, to more joyful times, Vie shares her story and gives gentle guidance to the listener on how to live a happier, kinder, more confident life, helping them see how wonderful they are, just as they are.

Have you been a victim of molestation? Males and females unfortunately can answer yes to this question. You can heal and not just survive, but thrive!

Recounting her experiences with sexist discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual violence - beginning in childhood, through the present - Woods lays out clear and unflinching personal vignettes that build in intensity as the number of times grows. Individually, and especially taken as a whole, these stories amount to powerful proof that sexual violence and discrimination are never just one-time occurrences, but part of a constant battle all women face every day.

George Pell: leader of the Catholic Church in Australia, confessor to Tony Abbott. David Marr: the nation's leading biographer and investigative journalist. Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when the Church's handling of sexual abuse is being closely investigated. He is also the confessor of prime-minister-in-waiting Tony Abbott.

Shawna Potter, singer for the band War on Women, has tackled sexism and harassment in lyrics and on stage for years. Taking the battle to music venues themselves, she has trained night clubs and community spaces in how to create safer environments for marginalized people. Now she’s turned decades of experience into a clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts, from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls, that want to shut down harassers wherever they show up.

“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors… It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together.”—NPR Winner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books...

Told from the perspective of an adult female who was sexually abused as a child, this book takes a deep look into the world of pedophiles and their behaviors. Through cases from history and real events from her past, she helps paint a more vivid picture of the "Chester Molesters" who are hiding in plain sight.

Jenny Brown, an unguarded exotic dancer in Beaverton, Oregon, seeks financial legitimacy for her and her family through higher channels of adult entertainment. The destruction of Jenny's boundaries invites a string of exploitive incidents. To prove herself unaffected, she dissociates her way toward national success as a feature entertainer.

In Hunting Girls, Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence - especially sexual violence - is an inevitable, perhaps even celebrated, part of a woman's maturity. In such films as Kick-Ass (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Maleficent (2014), power, control, and danger drive the story, but traditional relationships of care constrict the narrative. Even the protagonist's love interest adds to her suffering.

It began as rumors. Whispers at dinner parties. Warnings about bad dates with a Canadian celebrity. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, superstar CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi revealed his interest in "rough sex" in a long Facebook post, and a scandal of unprecedented scale descended on the radio host. What the public did not know was that months before Ghomeshi's emotional post, Canadaland podcaster Jesse Brown and Toronto Star journalist Kevin Donovan were quietly pursuing serious allegations against him.

A tense, provocative and nuanced novel about a rape accusation in an idyllic commune. 

Many books have dealt with sexual abuse scandals in the church and the role of pastoral care for survivors. Others have provided liberatory readings of biblical texts to support survivors of sexual violence. Surviving God takes a new approach, centering the voices of sexual abuse survivors while rethinking key Christian beliefs. Starting from experiences of oppression, beliefs that contribute to oppression are challenged, and new, hopeful, and healing beliefs take their place.