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Book Synopsis‘Innovative and challenging ... makes a valuable contribution to understanding sexual harassment.’ Feminist Bookstore NewsTrade Review'An innovative and challenging title from feminists in Britain [...] makes a valuable contribution to understanding sexual harassment' * Feminist Bookstore News *'A serious and scholarly written series of well referenced papers by British feminists which deserves a wide audience' * Journal of the Institute of Health Education *'This excellent volume of articles supplies a great deal of thought-provoking detail. The contriutors are rarely simply angry: each angle taken is represented with seriousness and nuance. However familiar the subject may seem - or precisely because we all think we know what term 'sexual harassment' means - these discussions open up a series of vital questions, both theoretical and practical, which will enable the debate to continue in ever clearer air. ...a fascinating contrast betwen 'rival accounts which consist of mutually imcompatible explanations'. A this brief tour will have shown, Rethinking Sexual Harassment is a valuable contricution to a debate that continues all around us, whether in the recent release of the latest piece of Michael Douglas male paranoia, Disclosure (the original version of which, by Michael Crichton, is cited by a number of the contributors) or in the rarely told 'other side' of all those stories of lechery in high places that our tabloids parade before us daily. Ten pages rarely pass without a sharp reminder of the range of experience covered by the term 'sexual harassment' and the iceberg of suffering that lurks below any long-debated accusation.' * Parallax *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Clare Brant and Yun Lee Too Section One: Stories Suzanne Gibson: Loose Rules and Likely Stories Helen Watson: Red Herrings and Mystifications; Conflicting Perceptions of Sexual Harassment Gargi Bhattacharyya: Offence is the Best defence? - Pornography and Racial Violence Section Two: Categories Ruth Jamieson: Risk, Responsibility and Sexual Harm Celia Kitzinger: Anti-lesbian Harassment Suzanne Raitt: Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse - When Girls Become Women Section Three: Contexts Ros Hunt: Seventy Times Seven?: Forgiveness and Sexual Violence in Christian Pastoral Care Diane Purkiss: The Lecherous Professor Revisited - Plato, Pedagogy and the Scene of Harassment Padma Anagol-McGinn: Sexual Harassment in India - A Case-Study of Eve-Teasing in Historical Perspective Jane Beckett: In and Out of View: Visual Representation and Sexual Harassment Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLeading thinkers discuss the experience and repercussions of violence, exploring its varied manifestations in the world todayTrade Review'Brad Evans in one of the brightest critical minds of his generation' -- Henry A. Giroux'Violence has been extraordinarily difficult to account for in conception and explanation. This compelling collection of first-rate contributions goes a long way to addressing these difficulties ... it serves as an anchor for critical thinking on the complex range, power and impacts of violence' -- David Theo Goldberg, author of Dread: Facing Futureless Futures (2021)'Conversations on Violence may have a foreboding title, but the collected interviews with artists, academics, activists, and entertainers is lively, stimulating, and engaging it is more like a salon than a crime scene. The topics discussed are serious and urgent from climate change, to the re-emergence of fascism, to sexual assault but the brilliant minds included here address these issues in direct and clear-eyed ways that point to fairer, safer, and more fully realized modes of existence in the future' -- Deborah Berke, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and founding partner of Deborah Berke PartnersReviews for the previous volume, Violence: Humans in Dark Times also by Brad Evans 'Notable contemporary thinkers and creators give their individual perspectives in this compelling look at violence. ... A provocative volume that challenges humanity to correct its runaway course toward an increasingly violent future by learning from its violent past' Kirkus Reviews 'The purpose of the work is to challenge humanity to create more meaningful solutions when it comes to these kinds of violence--or at least to name violence without inadvertently inciting even more anger. . . . passion roars through every chapter . . . This book delivers on what it promises, which is an achievement' The Los Angeles Review of Books 'Many of us live today with a pervasive sense of unease, worried that our own safety is at risk, or that of our loved ones, or that of people whose bad circumstances appear to us through networked media. Violence feels ever-present. Natasha Lennard and Brad Evans help us to analyze those feelings, talking with a wide range of thinkers in order to gain insight into the worst of what humans do, and challenging us to imagine a world in which violence is no longer a given. Their book is full of surprising insights and intelligent compassion' Sarah Leonard, co-editor of The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century 'In Violence, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard have created, alongside their interview subjects, a kaleidoscopic exploration of the concept of violence, in terrains expected and not, in prose taut and unexpectedly gorgeous. Their philosophical rigor provides the reader with an intellectual arsenal against the violence of the current moment' Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood 'This is a book that will make everyone feel clever. Reflections on violence, both actual, and the possibility of, mediating so much of social interaction, also makes for critical reading. The range of interviews with leading academics, to filmmakers and artists, is impressive, at once immediate and relevant, but also profoundly philosophical. More essentially, though, the conversations underline the need and suggest ways to resist and organize in a visionary way, in the extraordinary times we live in' Razia Iqbal, BBC News 'Standing on their own, the interview subjects featured in Violence: Humans In Dark Times might be identified as the foremost intellectuals, artists, and activists engaged with questions of how violence moves, acts, and is witnessed in the world. But summoned together in this collection by two political thinkers distinguished by both their unmatched intellects and their willingness to deploy those intellects in acts of service rather than performance, their voices materialize as a creative space large and fertile enough to lay the groundwork for an actionable hope. The result is a groundbreaking testament to the vital role of the abstract and the theoretical for understanding the depth to which violence is entrenched in human experience and consciousness and to the necessity of empathetic intellectual stewards like Lennard and Evans to direct such understanding into transformative action. We would be wise to read this collection with a similar eye toward service, and in so doing, open ourselves up to the rare mercy of no longer having to stand on our own' Alana Massey, author of All The Lives I Want 'A timely, eloquent series of interviews that interrogate the correlation of violence with gender discrimination, white intolerance, unilateral state power, politics, art and climate change' Shelley Walia, FrontlineTable of ContentsIntroduction - Brad Evans & Adrian Parr 1. The Poetry of Resistance - Malcolm London 2. Breaking the World - Marina Abramovic 3. Trans-species Encounters - David Rothenberg 4. Recovering from an Addicted Life - Russell Brand 5. Non-Violence & the Ghost of Fascism - Todd May (Clemson University) 6. Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence - Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago) 7. The Anatomy of Destruction - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University) 8. The Intimate Witness: Art and the Disappeared of History - Chantal Meza 9. The Death of Humanitarianism - Mark Duffield (Global Insecurities Centre) 10. The Expulsion of Humanity - Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) 11. When Art is Born of Resistance - Martha Rosler 12. The Tragedy of Existence - Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research) 13. The Violence of the Algorithm - Davide Panagia (University of California) 14. Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way - Lewis Gordon 15. What does an Anti-Fascist Life Feel Like? - Natasha Lennard (New School for Social Research) 16. Life in Zones of Abandonment - Henry A. Giroux 17. The Violence of Absent Emergencies - Santiago Zabala 18. The Ghosts of Civilised Violence - Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee University, Seoul) 19. Violence is Freedom - Roy Scranton (University of Notre-Dame) 20. Slavery in America - Ana-Lucia Araujo (Howard University) 21. Why We Should All Read Walter Benjamin Today - James Martel (San Francisco State University) 22. Unlearning History - Ariella Aisha Azoulay (Brown University) 23. When Death Travels - Gareth Owen 24. The Poverty of Violence - Ananya Roy (UCLA) 25. The Violence of Denial - Linda Melvern 26. Why We Should All Read Malcolm X Today - Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University) 27. America is Not a Fascist State. It’s an Authoritarian one - Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University) 28. The Atmosphere of Violence - Fatima Bhutto 29. The Inherited Memory of Art - Mark Bradford 30. Look Closer, Then You Will See - Isaac Cordal 31. The Revolutionary Potential of Pacificism - Richard Jackson (University of Otago, NZ) Index

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Book SynopsisLeading thinkers discuss the experience and repercussions of violence, exploring its varied manifestations in the world todayTrade Review'Brad Evans in one of the brightest critical minds of his generation' -- Henry A. Giroux'Violence has been extraordinarily difficult to account for in conception and explanation. This compelling collection of first-rate contributions goes a long way to addressing these difficulties ... it serves as an anchor for critical thinking on the complex range, power and impacts of violence' -- David Theo Goldberg, author of Dread: Facing Futureless Futures (2021)'Conversations on Violence may have a foreboding title, but the collected interviews with artists, academics, activists, and entertainers is lively, stimulating, and engaging it is more like a salon than a crime scene. The topics discussed are serious and urgent from climate change, to the re-emergence of fascism, to sexual assault but the brilliant minds included here address these issues in direct and clear-eyed ways that point to fairer, safer, and more fully realized modes of existence in the future' -- Deborah Berke, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and founding partner of Deborah Berke PartnersReviews for the previous volume, Violence: Humans in Dark Times also by Brad Evans 'Notable contemporary thinkers and creators give their individual perspectives in this compelling look at violence. ... A provocative volume that challenges humanity to correct its runaway course toward an increasingly violent future by learning from its violent past' Kirkus Reviews 'The purpose of the work is to challenge humanity to create more meaningful solutions when it comes to these kinds of violence--or at least to name violence without inadvertently inciting even more anger. . . . passion roars through every chapter . . . This book delivers on what it promises, which is an achievement' The Los Angeles Review of Books 'Many of us live today with a pervasive sense of unease, worried that our own safety is at risk, or that of our loved ones, or that of people whose bad circumstances appear to us through networked media. Violence feels ever-present. Natasha Lennard and Brad Evans help us to analyze those feelings, talking with a wide range of thinkers in order to gain insight into the worst of what humans do, and challenging us to imagine a world in which violence is no longer a given. Their book is full of surprising insights and intelligent compassion' Sarah Leonard, co-editor of The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century 'In Violence, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard have created, alongside their interview subjects, a kaleidoscopic exploration of the concept of violence, in terrains expected and not, in prose taut and unexpectedly gorgeous. Their philosophical rigor provides the reader with an intellectual arsenal against the violence of the current moment' Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood 'This is a book that will make everyone feel clever. Reflections on violence, both actual, and the possibility of, mediating so much of social interaction, also makes for critical reading. The range of interviews with leading academics, to filmmakers and artists, is impressive, at once immediate and relevant, but also profoundly philosophical. More essentially, though, the conversations underline the need and suggest ways to resist and organize in a visionary way, in the extraordinary times we live in' Razia Iqbal, BBC News 'Standing on their own, the interview subjects featured in Violence: Humans In Dark Times might be identified as the foremost intellectuals, artists, and activists engaged with questions of how violence moves, acts, and is witnessed in the world. But summoned together in this collection by two political thinkers distinguished by both their unmatched intellects and their willingness to deploy those intellects in acts of service rather than performance, their voices materialize as a creative space large and fertile enough to lay the groundwork for an actionable hope. The result is a groundbreaking testament to the vital role of the abstract and the theoretical for understanding the depth to which violence is entrenched in human experience and consciousness and to the necessity of empathetic intellectual stewards like Lennard and Evans to direct such understanding into transformative action. We would be wise to read this collection with a similar eye toward service, and in so doing, open ourselves up to the rare mercy of no longer having to stand on our own' Alana Massey, author of All The Lives I Want 'A timely, eloquent series of interviews that interrogate the correlation of violence with gender discrimination, white intolerance, unilateral state power, politics, art and climate change' Shelley Walia, FrontlineTable of ContentsIntroduction - Brad Evans & Adrian Parr 1. The Poetry of Resistance - Malcolm London 2. Breaking the World - Marina Abramovic 3. Trans-species Encounters - David Rothenberg 4. Recovering from an Addicted Life - Russell Brand 5. Non-Violence & the Ghost of Fascism - Todd May (Clemson University) 6. Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence - Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago) 7. The Anatomy of Destruction - Gil Anidjar (Columbia University) 8. The Intimate Witness: Art and the Disappeared of History - Chantal Meza 9. The Death of Humanitarianism - Mark Duffield (Global Insecurities Centre) 10. The Expulsion of Humanity - Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) 11. When Art is Born of Resistance - Martha Rosler 12. The Tragedy of Existence - Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research) 13. The Violence of the Algorithm - Davide Panagia (University of California) 14. Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way - Lewis Gordon 15. What does an Anti-Fascist Life Feel Like? - Natasha Lennard (New School for Social Research) 16. Life in Zones of Abandonment - Henry A. Giroux 17. The Violence of Absent Emergencies - Santiago Zabala 18. The Ghosts of Civilised Violence - Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee University, Seoul) 19. Violence is Freedom - Roy Scranton (University of Notre-Dame) 20. Slavery in America - Ana-Lucia Araujo (Howard University) 21. Why We Should All Read Walter Benjamin Today - James Martel (San Francisco State University) 22. Unlearning History - Ariella Aisha Azoulay (Brown University) 23. When Death Travels - Gareth Owen 24. The Poverty of Violence - Ananya Roy (UCLA) 25. The Violence of Denial - Linda Melvern 26. Why We Should All Read Malcolm X Today - Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University) 27. America is Not a Fascist State. It’s an Authoritarian one - Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University) 28. The Atmosphere of Violence - Fatima Bhutto 29. The Inherited Memory of Art - Mark Bradford 30. Look Closer, Then You Will See - Isaac Cordal 31. The Revolutionary Potential of Pacificism - Richard Jackson (University of Otago, NZ) Index

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Book SynopsisThis workbook is designed to be used to facilitate discussion and disseminate awareness amongst all professionals (social workers, teachers and health care professionals) who are required by law to report instances of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Suitable for use in group settings, it requires no prior knowledge of the subject, but is written in such a way for anyone to be able to facilitate a session with colleagues, which takes between one to three hours depending on the facilitator and group's needs. Divided into five chapters, it shows how to facilitate a training session using the material, including being aware of how people may be triggered by this difficult subject. Providing activities to facilitate discussion, it explains terminology and provides explanation of different types of FGM, risk factors and legal aspects including mandatory reporting in certain regions. Designed to be concise, it will give busy professionals a quick and effective tool to dissemTable of Contents0.Introduction. Chapter 4: When We Have Concerns About a Girl’s Risk of FGM. Chapter 5: Towards a Future Without Cutting.

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Book Synopsis'Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of society, women who defy being statistics, who have their own stories and loves to tell' Sophie WardWINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE OCKHAM AWARDSLeeds in the 1970s is a place fraught with danger for young women like Jude, for her best friend Nel and Janice across the road. Jude flirts with the wrong kind of people, gets drunk too often, ends up on wild hitch-hiking jaunts up and down the country. Until now it has all been fun, a way to let off steam when the relationship she's having with a married woman doesn't work out. Jude doesn't pay much attention to the news: to the young women who have been going missing, to the young women who haven't been returning home, to the dangers out there. That is until she's offered a lift by a couple in a grey car, a couple who have been stalking the roads, looking for someone exactly like her.Trade ReviewAn exhilarating novel, so evocative of the lives of broke, hedonistic art graduates in the 70s and all the joy and recklessness of youth. I was gripped also by the darkness and predatory threats circling these characters, who think themselves so invulnerable, and yet are anything but * Susan Barker, author of The Incarnations *Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of society, women who defy being statistics, who have their own stories and loves to tell * Sophie Ward *Moments of startling beauty and heart-wrenching tenderness. The author's skill in portraying so much brutality with such a lightness of touch is truly impressive. The writing engages from the get-go with crisp dialogue, deft depictions of time and place and sharp observations of human behaviour . . . I relished every page * Emma Henderson *My favourite kind of book . . . captures an England ill-at-ease with itself full of people who don't know what they want, but they know it isn't this. This is a novel that introduces an assured writer, someone interested in lives that are often over-looked * Stephen May *Contains some surprisingly touching moments * Sunday Business Post *

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical overview of established and emerging manifestations of domestic violence across Europe. It describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals from a range of European countries share their findings from new groundbreaking victim surveys, and weigh up the legal, social and healthcare challenges. The issues addressed include: - the cultural challenges of combating abuse forms most prevalent in migrant communities such as female genital mutilation and forced marriage; - emerging problems such as child-to-parent violence, teenage relationship violence and digital intimate partner abuse; and- barriers to help-seeking faced by marginalised victims such as LGBTQ and older people. By showcasing the most effective responses formulated in Europe and exploring innovative ways to research and understand domestic violence, this book is a crucial resource for all those with responsibility for implementing social policy and good practice.Trade ReviewA particular strength is the breadth of the collection which includes incisive accounts of research processes, training, policy and service development. The book will provide an invaluable resource for all those who work or study in the field of domestic violence. -- Nicky Stanley, Professor of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction - Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden and Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway and John Devaney, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. Part I: The policy framework for responding to domestic violence in Europe. 1. Domestic violence - a rights-based response: Drawing on results from the FRA's violence against women survey - Joanna Goodey, Head of the Freedoms and Justice Department, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna, Austria. 2. Development, coordination and implementation of national strategies for the prevention of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in Ireland: Lessons learned and unlearned - Philip McCormack, Cosc - The National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, Dublin, Ireland. Part II: Children's experiences of domestic violence. 3. Mother-child relationships in the context of intimate partner violence - Zuzana Ocenasova, Coordination and Methodological Centre for Prevention of Violence against Women, Bratislava, Slovakia and Hana Smitkova, Department of Psychology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. 4. Voice, agency power: A framework for young survivors' participation in national domestic abuse policy-making - Claire Houghton, Researcher and Expert Adviser, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 5. Including children and young people in domestic violence research: When myths and misconceptions compromise participation - Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden and Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway and Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 6. Research on teenage intimate partner violence within a European context: Findings from the literature - Sibel Korkmaz, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Sweden. 7. Fear of double disclosure and other barriers to the help seeking: An intersectional approach to address the needs of LGBT teenagers experiencing teenage relationship abuse -Maria Pentaraki, Lecturer in Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. 8. Caring dads, safer children: Using a focus on fathering to respond to domestic violence - Nicola McConnell, Senior Evaluation Officer, NSPCC, United Kingdom, Julie Taylor, Professor of Child Protection, University of Birmingham/ Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom and Matt Barnard, Head of Crime, Justice and Communities, NatCen, United Kingdom. Part III: New understandings on domestic abuse and violence. 9. Strength through solidarity: Practitioners and parents resisting child to parent violence and abuse in Ireland - Declan Coogan, Lecturer in Social Work, NUI Galway, Ireland. 10. Digital intimate partner violence and abuse among youth: A systematic review of associated factors - Per Moum Hellevik, PhD Candidate, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway. 11. Human trafficking and gender based violence: From life and limb to hearts and minds - Nusha Yonkova, Anti-Trafficking Manager, Immigrant Council of Ireland and Gloria Kirwan, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 12. Female genital mutilation: Results from the Portuguese prevalence study - Dalila Cerejo, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICSNOVA- FCSH/NOVA) New University of Lisbon, Portugal. 13. Force marriage in Europe: The case of Belgium - Els Leye, International Centre for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Belgium. Part IV: Responding to domestic violence and abuse. 14. Models on treatment of intimate partner violence: Gender based and trauma informed work at Alternative to Violence in Norway - Ingunn Rangul Askeland, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, and Clinical Psychologist, Alternative to Violence, Oslo, Norway and Marius Råkil, Director, Alternative to Violence, Oslo, Norway. 15. Healthcare responses to domestic violence: Why and how? - Lucy Potter, Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Bristol, United Kingdom and Gene Feder, Professor of Primary Care, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. 16. Older women's experiences of domestic abuse - Elizabeth Martin, PhD Candidate, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom, John Devaney, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom and Gemma Carney, Lecturer in Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. 17. Whose movement is it anyway? Reflections from the field - Davina James-Hanman, Independent Violence Against Women Consultant, Lisbon, Portugal. Conclusion: Progressing the debate on domestic violence in Europe - Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, John Devaney, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom and Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Swedenand Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway.

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Book SynopsisThis book is intended for those in the humanities seeking a legal context for writing about rape in early modern England. It takes the premise that over the past four decades misunderstandings about rape law, and misreadings of rape statutes from medieval to Elizabethan times, have become widely cited in criticism. Helen Barker identifies how this has arisen, and discusses the main sources of confusion – including indissoluble issues around the word ‘ravishment’. Rape law historically encompassed elopement and abduction; this book offers a succinct overview of the law, and draws attention to the wider social context other than gender opposition in which it is often presented. In addition, critics have been tempted to rely on the ostensibly authoritative seventeenth-century treatise, The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights, as a legal source. By examining the context of its publication, this book suggests that the treatise is unreliable and can mislead the unwary.Table of Contents1. Critical Context and History.The Critical ContextCriticism and MethodologyHistory2. The Legal Framework.Common Law: Ancient, Medieval, Early ModernSome Sources of ConfusionBibliography3. Statute Law.Rape, Elopement and AbductionRape and Elopement After 1487The Abduction Acts“History cannot be written from the statute books alone”Bibliography4. The Lawes Resolutions Of Womens Rights.AuthorshipFinding a ReadershipLaw Books and the Print TradePublishing The Lawes ResolutionsRape Law, Criticism and The Lawes ResolutionsBibliography5. Conclusion.

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