Sexual abuse and harassment Books

Book SynopsisThe purpose of the SANE/SAFE Forensic Workbook Series: Entry-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment is to provide an opportunity for health care providers to learn, improve, and demonstrate competency in sexual assault evaluations of adolescents and adults. This workbook answers a pressing need for educational tools devoted to enabling those who work with sexual assault patients to recognise and understand anatomy and injury in sexual assault cases. The Entry-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment can be used to document the competency of various health care providers, which include physicians and nurses from military, nursing, and medical schools. This is the ultimate self-study resource on sexual assault and is accredited through Saint Louis University’s School of Medicine and School of Nursing to provide CME/CNE credit(s). Ten case studies help the student identify areas of weakness and strength, providing a roadmap for learning. Management will want to use Entry-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment as a tool to evaluate competency in adolescent and adult sexual assault care for performance standards and evaluations. The workbook contains critical thinking activities and photographic references. The Entry-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment will enhance learning for the novice and will also support the experienced examiner’s skill set. Future workbooks will cover topics such as intimate partner violence, paediatric anatomy and sexual abuse, elder sexual assault, and more. Intermediate-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment and Advanced-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment will be added to STM Learning’s library in the near future as well. Table of Contents Section I: Anatomical Review 1. Sexual Assault: 41-year-old Female Patient with Down's Syndrome 2. Sexual Assault: 32-year-old Male Patient 3. Incapacitated Sexual Assault: 24-year-old Female Patient 4. Sexual Assault: 21-year-old Female College Student 5. Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault: 15-year-old Female Patient 6. Sexual Assault: 17-year-old Female Patient 7. Incapacitated Sexual Assault: 24-year-old Female Patient in a Psychiatric Facility 8. Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence: 32-year-old Female Patient 9. Sexual Assault: 20-year-old Female Patient10. Documenting a History and Reviewing a CaseSection II: Recommended ReadingSection III: Answer KeySection IV: Test Questions

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of the SANE/SAFE Forensic Workbook Series: Advanced-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment is to provide an opportunity for health care providers to learn, improve, and demonstrate competency in sexual assault evaluations of adolescents and adults. This workbook answers a pressing need for educational tools devoted to enabling those who work with sexual assault patients to recognise and understand anatomy and injury in sexual assault cases. The Advanced- Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment can be used to document the competency of various health care providers, which include physicians and nurses from military, nursing, and medical schools. This is the ultimate self-study resource on sexual assault and is accredited through Saint Louis University’s School of Medicine and School of Nursing to provide CME/CNE credit(s). Ten case studies help the student identify areas of weakness and strength, providing a roadmap for learning. Management will want to use Advanced-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment as a tool to evaluate competency in adolescent and adult sexual assault care for performance standards and evaluations. The workbook contains critical thinking activities and photographic references. The Advanced-Level Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment will enhance learning for the novice and will also support the experienced examiner’s skill set. Future workbooks will cover topics such as intimate partner violence, paediatric anatomy and sexual abuse, elder sexual assault, and more. All will be added to STM Learning’s library in the near future as well.

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Book SynopsisIn cases of sexual assault, it is important that investigators and care providers be able to respond quickly and appropriately in examining survivors, not only to ensure their health and safety but also to preserve any physical evidence left by the perpetrator. In such cases, a convenient visual reference can provide valuable support to investigators in making a timely and accurate assessment.Physical Examinations in Sexual Assault Pocket Atlas, Vol. 1: Assault Histories includes over 500 full-color examination photos demonstrating both common and unusual findings in cases of sexual assault across the life span. These photos include case studies written by attending medical practitioners, providing valuable insight into findings in each particular case. With a convenient visual reference at the ready, sexual assault response team members in medicine, law enforcement, and in any other field involved with the investigation of sexual assault will be well prepared to make fast and effective assessments in the field.

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Book SynopsisWhile examining suspected sexual assault survivors, it is important that investigators be able to accurately assess not only for those findings indicative of assault but also for normal or otherwise nonassaultive findings. The difference between normal and assaultive findings may be subtle, and assessing for normal findings in cases of suspected sexual violence may be challenging. That being the case, sexual assault investigators of every variety can benefit from a fast and accessible reference to support their evaluations.Physical Examinations in Sexual Assault Pocket Atlas, Volume 2: Nonassault Variants and Normal Findings provides a quick and convenient visual reference for normal and nonassault findings in suspected survivors. This light-weight and pocket-sized photographic atlas includes more than 500 full-color exam photographs and corresponding case studies written by expert investigators. Readers in medicine, law enforcement, and any organizations affiliated with sexual assault investigations will benefit from an extensive and accessible visual catalog of normal physical findings.

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Book SynopsisDomestic Violence/Strangulation Assessment will teach readers the language of evidence-based evaluative methods of care for strangulation patients. It is designed to standardize anatomic nomenclature, as it relates to the head and neck, for both new and experienced sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) and sexual assault forensic examiners (SAFEs), first responders, medical residents and physicians, nursing students, and nurse practitioners, including nurse midwives, women's health nurse practitioners, pediatric nurse practitioners, and forensic nurse practitioners. Ten new strangulation case studies with a clear history, photographic representation, and confirmation of anatomic landmarks and injuries, along with discussions about existing conditions and their influence, identification of injury, evidence-based collection techniques, and treatment based on current standards of practice. Chapters will also include best practice recommendations and other tools to support evaluation and documentation. Offering this workbook to first responders and health care providers will help fulfill their need for basic, peer-reviewed information and will contribute to continuing competence in care for strangulation patients.Table of Contents Introduction Section I: Strangulation Assessment Section II: Case Study Chapters 1. 32-Year-Old Female Strangulation Patient with Hyoid Bone Fracture and Suicidal Ideation 2. 21-Year-Old Male Patient Assaulted by an Acquaintance 3. 66-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by Her Son 4. 17-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by an Acquaintance 5. 26-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by a Former Intimate Partner 6. 15-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by a Stranger 7. 24-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by a Former Intimate Partner 8. 65-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by a Former Intimate Partner 9. 31-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by a Former Intimate Partner 10. 22-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by a Former Intimate Partner 11. 70-Year-Old Male Patient Assaulted by an Employee 12. 56-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by an Ex-Husband 13. 30-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted and Strangled by an Intimate Partner 14. 25-Year-Old Female Patient Assaulted by a Stranger 15. 46-Year-old Female Patient Assaulted and Strangled by her Husband Section III: Appendix Section IV: Reccommended Reading Section V: Answer Key

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment activism in India. Including 75 interviews with feminist activists and journalists working across India, it proposes a framework of agenda-building and establishes a theoretical framework to examine media coverage of issues in the digitally emerging Global South.Trade Review"Activism or slacktivism?In a chat with Nandita Bose, author Pallavi Guha states that social media spaces have empowered voices against sexual abuse but the sustainability of these movements has been an issue," By Nandita Bose — Deccan Herald "The book’s strengths lie in its contextualization of the feminist movement in India in a scenario that is being speedily digitized. Guha does not shy away from talking about gatekeeping within organizations working in women’s rights and how it impeded her access to activists. Her frank delving, in designing this research, and self-reflexivity makes this an excellent text not just for those interested in digital feminist activism in India but also for global scholars of qualitative research methodology."— International Journal of Communication "Sexual offenders and academia: The great debate," an excerpt from Hear #MeToo in India — Hindu Business Line "New Books Network: New Books in Gender podcast" interview with Pallavi Guha— New Books Network: New Books in Gender "The author’s careful treatment of a very difficult subject allows the reader to consider the stories they don’t hear and, in fact, may never hear. To do so was no easy task. But the result is an important addition to interdisciplinary studies in sexual violence and feminist perspectives worldwide."— South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies KOOP Radio's People United interview with Pallavi Guha and Amy Wu— KOOP Radio's "People United" "Beach reads: The top “beach books” for your summer vacations," by Mary Carole McCauley— The Baltimore Sun "In this excellent work, author Pallavi Guha examines shifts in media landscapes and journalism in relation to social media and the reporting on rape and violence against women in India. She looks carefully at issues around access and visibility of marginalized feminist activists and how they are reported on and characterized. She notes how social media shifts the ways in which feminist activist groups and journalists similarly or differently reach out to larger publics to create awareness and contribute to social justice movements nationally and transnationally. She holds herself accountable to feminist principles of research throughout her writing. Importantly, she is clear about her own social location and her approach to this research project. This book is a very important contribution to the growing amount of published work around Indian feminists and new media"— Radhika Gajjala, author of Digital Diasporas: Labor and Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics "Nothing is more important than understanding how social media promote activist goals in our new media environment. In this important new study, Pallavi Guha demonstrates the power of social media to promote progressive social change. Examining the #metoo movement in India, Guha interviews both feminist activists and journalists, examining the intricate interconnections between media, social media, and activism in the context of the Global South. The work will be an important reference for generations of feminist media scholars to come." — Andrea L. Press, co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meanings Across Pla "It can be challenging to find a single volume that is rigorously researched, endlessly readable and undoubtedly useful in the fight against rape and sexual harassment, but this one does it."— Ms. Magazine The Cārvāka Podcast interview with Pallavi Guha— The Carvaka Podcast "By contextualizing women’s stories — and emphasizing the similarities among sexual-assault victims everywhere — the media, as well as authors like myself, can build a stronger, more accurate narrative around sexual assault, one that is respectful of victims regardless of where they live."— Washington Independent Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction and Historical Background Framing of Rape in News Media and its Impact on Feminist Activism and Journalists #metooindia Including Themes The Heart Doesn’t Bleed for Everyone: Selective Outrage and Activism The Successes and Failures of Transnational Hashtag Movements Moving Forward: Learning from Anti-Rape Feminist Movements References

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment activism in India. Including 75 interviews with feminist activists and journalists working across India, it proposes a framework of agenda-building and establishes a theoretical framework to examine media coverage of issues in the digitally emerging Global South.Trade Review"Activism or slacktivism?In a chat with Nandita Bose, author Pallavi Guha states that social media spaces have empowered voices against sexual abuse but the sustainability of these movements has been an issue," By Nandita Bose — Deccan Herald "The book’s strengths lie in its contextualization of the feminist movement in India in a scenario that is being speedily digitized. Guha does not shy away from talking about gatekeeping within organizations working in women’s rights and how it impeded her access to activists. Her frank delving, in designing this research, and self-reflexivity makes this an excellent text not just for those interested in digital feminist activism in India but also for global scholars of qualitative research methodology."— International Journal of Communication "Sexual offenders and academia: The great debate," an excerpt from Hear #MeToo in India — Hindu Business Line "New Books Network: New Books in Gender podcast" interview with Pallavi Guha— New Books Network: New Books in Gender "The author’s careful treatment of a very difficult subject allows the reader to consider the stories they don’t hear and, in fact, may never hear. To do so was no easy task. But the result is an important addition to interdisciplinary studies in sexual violence and feminist perspectives worldwide."— South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies KOOP Radio's People United interview with Pallavi Guha and Amy Wu— KOOP Radio's "People United" "Beach reads: The top “beach books” for your summer vacations," by Mary Carole McCauley— The Baltimore Sun "In this excellent work, author Pallavi Guha examines shifts in media landscapes and journalism in relation to social media and the reporting on rape and violence against women in India. She looks carefully at issues around access and visibility of marginalized feminist activists and how they are reported on and characterized. She notes how social media shifts the ways in which feminist activist groups and journalists similarly or differently reach out to larger publics to create awareness and contribute to social justice movements nationally and transnationally. She holds herself accountable to feminist principles of research throughout her writing. Importantly, she is clear about her own social location and her approach to this research project. This book is a very important contribution to the growing amount of published work around Indian feminists and new media"— Radhika Gajjala, author of Digital Diasporas: Labor and Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics "Nothing is more important than understanding how social media promote activist goals in our new media environment. In this important new study, Pallavi Guha demonstrates the power of social media to promote progressive social change. Examining the #metoo movement in India, Guha interviews both feminist activists and journalists, examining the intricate interconnections between media, social media, and activism in the context of the Global South. The work will be an important reference for generations of feminist media scholars to come." — Andrea L. Press, co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meanings Across Pla "It can be challenging to find a single volume that is rigorously researched, endlessly readable and undoubtedly useful in the fight against rape and sexual harassment, but this one does it."— Ms. Magazine The Cārvāka Podcast interview with Pallavi Guha— The Carvaka Podcast "By contextualizing women’s stories — and emphasizing the similarities among sexual-assault victims everywhere — the media, as well as authors like myself, can build a stronger, more accurate narrative around sexual assault, one that is respectful of victims regardless of where they live."— Washington Independent Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction and Historical Background Framing of Rape in News Media and its Impact on Feminist Activism and Journalists #metooindia Including Themes The Heart Doesn’t Bleed for Everyone: Selective Outrage and Activism The Successes and Failures of Transnational Hashtag Movements Moving Forward: Learning from Anti-Rape Feminist Movements References

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Book SynopsisBy analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave feminist criticism of Sigmund Freud considers how Freud became “white” in these discussions. Unsettling reveals how film, TV, and literature have helped displace once prevalent antisemitic stereotypes onto those who are non-Jewish, nonwhite, and poor. In considering how whiteness functions for an ethnoreligious group with historic vulnerability to incest stereotype as well as contemporary white privilege, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men accused of incest, and even those who defiantly confess it, became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability. Trade ReviewBromberg breaks the silence and pushes discomfort to the margins as he unpacks notions of American Jewish Ashkenazi exceptionalism without overlooking how Jewish whiteness, an embodied American process, exists as an anomaly... Innovative. -- Katya Gibel Mevorach * author of Black, Jewish and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin, *In this provocative and timely book, Eli Bromberg dares to examine how anti-Semitic sexual stereotypes centered on the incest taboo continue to shape representations of Jews and Jewishness in American culture. Bromberg brings oft-silenced topics to the fore, exposing the “protective politics” of Jewish communities and unsettling paradigms...a fascinating contribution to the fields of Jewish cultural studies and comparative race studies. -- Lori Harrison-Kahan * author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary *"Bromberg presents a well-written critical analysis of the intersections of Jewish ethnoreligious identity, white racial identity, and gender that lays important groundwork for future work in the area. Those who read this text will have a more advanced understanding of the intersections of these categories in the context of the situations described....[A]n important contribution to the fields of race and ethnic studies and Jewish studies because it pioneers many previously undiscussed and under-discussed topics simultaneously." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, Incest in American Pop Culture by Eli Bromberg" * New York Jewish Travel Guide *"A timely and theoretically sophisticated contribution to studies in Jewish social politics, popular culture, and critical race studies. It shines a bold light on the ways in which Jewish vulnerability to sexual antisemitism, rooted in centuries of anti-Jewish belief, has continued to enable and reward complacence with the demands of racist and patriarchal power structures as a requisite for American Jews’ own conditional inclusion within the paradox of 'universalist,' white-dominated American culture. It furthers contemplation about the predicaments of Jewish identity in a context that awards conditional privileges to those whose security is easily dismantled by underlying prejudice and who are thus compelled to reinforce existing power structures in the name of self-defense." * AJS Review *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1: A Victorian Freud: A Rhetorical Analysis of Jewish Second-Wave Feminist Criticism of Freud Chapter 2: Incest, Exogamy, and Jewishness on Roseanne Chapter 3: Woody, Wood Yi, and Communion Wafers Chapter 4: Blood Libel Humor and Incest Easter Eggs Chapter 5: “Till a Khusin Comes Along” Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisBy analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave feminist criticism of Sigmund Freud considers how Freud became “white” in these discussions. Unsettling reveals how film, TV, and literature have helped displace once prevalent antisemitic stereotypes onto those who are non-Jewish, nonwhite, and poor. In considering how whiteness functions for an ethnoreligious group with historic vulnerability to incest stereotype as well as contemporary white privilege, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men accused of incest, and even those who defiantly confess it, became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability. Trade ReviewBromberg breaks the silence and pushes discomfort to the margins as he unpacks notions of American Jewish Ashkenazi exceptionalism without overlooking how Jewish whiteness, an embodied American process, exists as an anomaly... Innovative. -- Katya Gibel Mevorach * author of Black, Jewish and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin, *In this provocative and timely book, Eli Bromberg dares to examine how anti-Semitic sexual stereotypes centered on the incest taboo continue to shape representations of Jews and Jewishness in American culture. Bromberg brings oft-silenced topics to the fore, exposing the “protective politics” of Jewish communities and unsettling paradigms...a fascinating contribution to the fields of Jewish cultural studies and comparative race studies. -- Lori Harrison-Kahan * author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary *"Bromberg presents a well-written critical analysis of the intersections of Jewish ethnoreligious identity, white racial identity, and gender that lays important groundwork for future work in the area. Those who read this text will have a more advanced understanding of the intersections of these categories in the context of the situations described....[A]n important contribution to the fields of race and ethnic studies and Jewish studies because it pioneers many previously undiscussed and under-discussed topics simultaneously." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, Incest in American Pop Culture by Eli Bromberg" * New York Jewish Travel Guide *"A timely and theoretically sophisticated contribution to studies in Jewish social politics, popular culture, and critical race studies. It shines a bold light on the ways in which Jewish vulnerability to sexual antisemitism, rooted in centuries of anti-Jewish belief, has continued to enable and reward complacence with the demands of racist and patriarchal power structures as a requisite for American Jews’ own conditional inclusion within the paradox of 'universalist,' white-dominated American culture. It furthers contemplation about the predicaments of Jewish identity in a context that awards conditional privileges to those whose security is easily dismantled by underlying prejudice and who are thus compelled to reinforce existing power structures in the name of self-defense." * AJS Review *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1: A Victorian Freud: A Rhetorical Analysis of Jewish Second-Wave Feminist Criticism of Freud Chapter 2: Incest, Exogamy, and Jewishness on Roseanne Chapter 3: Woody, Wood Yi, and Communion Wafers Chapter 4: Blood Libel Humor and Incest Easter Eggs Chapter 5: “Till a Khusin Comes Along” Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisGender violence has been at the forefront of women’s human rights struggles for decades, shaping political movements and NGO and government programs related to women’s empowerment, community development, and public health. Drawing on over twenty years of research and activism in rural Ecuador, Karin Friederic provides a remarkably intimate view of what these rights-based programs actually achieve over the long term. The Prism of Human Rights brings us into the lives of women, men, and children who find themselves entangled in intimate partner violence, structural violence, political economic change, and a global cultural project in which “rights” are associated with modernity, development, and democratic states. She details the multiple forms of violence that rural women experience; shows the diverse ways they make sense of, endure, and combat this violence; and helps us understand how people are grappling with new ideas of gender, rights, and even of violence itself. Ultimately, Friederic demonstrates that rights-based interventions provide important openings for women seeking a life free of violence, but they also unwittingly expose “liberated” women to more extreme dynamics of structural violence. Thus, these interventions often reduce women’s room to maneuver and encourage communities to hide violence in order to appear “modern” and “developed.” This analysis of human rights in practice is essential for anyone seeking to promote justice in a culturally responsible manner, and for anyone who hopes to understand how the globalization of rights, legal institutions, and moral visions is transforming distant locales and often perpetuating violence in the process.Trade Review "Karin Friederic’s critical approach to human rights practice draws on a wealth of ethnographic data collected across decades of ethically and politically committed research. Her nuanced reading of the interactions between the state, the law, rights-based interventions and women’s lives, in contexts of extreme gender-based violence, is a key contribution to understanding the limits and paradoxes of human rights. This is a hard but necessary lesson to advance a responsible fight for women’s dignity." -- Silvana Tapia Tapia * author of Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador *"Karin Friederic's The Prism of Human Rights is a compelling, emotional, and ethnographically rich read. Friederic's ethical delivery of Gabi's story, the punctuated narrative driving the book, is a reminder that Friederic is describing real people in real time. Using political economy and the best of interpretivist anthropology, Friederic seamlessly weaves scales of violence in and through Las Colinas, a place that is richly described, in loving detail, serving as a reminder that abstract notions like 'human rights' and 'development' have real human consequences." -- Hillary J. Haldane * co-author of Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices *"Karin Friederic’s beautifully rendered ethnography on gender violence breaks new ground. Through intimate storytelling only made possible by her two decades of fieldwork and activism in La Colinas, Ecuador, she reveals how supposedly universal human rights discourses unfold in sharply contradictory ways in the lives of real women." -- Sarah J. Hautzinger * author of Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil *Table of Contents Prologue: Gabi, Part I Introduction: Understanding Gender Violence through the Prism of Human Rights 1 “Somos del Campo”: Gender Politics of Rural Households 2 “Somos así por Naturaleza”: Bodies, Sexuality, and Morality on Ecuador’s Coast Interlude: Gabi, Part II 3 “¿Por qué me maltrate así?”: Rethinking Violence, Rethinking Justice 4 The Prism of Rights: Empowering Women for Gender Justice 5 Cultivating Modern Selves: Reframing Sexuality and Violence within a Moral Economy of Development Conclusion: Vernacularizing Human Rights for Gender Justice Epilogue: Gabi’s Story, Part III Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In “one of the most important athlete memoirs of its generation” (Kate Fagan, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running.Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age and was offered a Nike sponsorship deal when she graduated from college. Then in 2004, she was invited to join a secretive, lavishly funded new team, dubbed the Nike Oregon Project. Coached by distance running legend Alberto Salazar, it seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime. Kara was soon winning a World Championship medal, going to the Olympics, and standing on the podium at the New York and Boston marathons, just like her coach had done. But behind the scenes, Salazar was hiding dark secrets. He pushed the limits of anti-doping rules and created what Kara experienced as a culture of abuse, the extent of which she reveals in her book for the first time. Meanwhile, Nike stood by Alberto for years and proved itself capable of shockingly misogynistic corporate practices. The Longest Race is an unforgettable story that is “as interesting as it is important” (Molly Huddle, two-time Olympian) and also a crucial call to action. Kara became a crusader for female athletes and a key witness helping to get Salazar banned from coaching at the Olympic level. The Longest Race will leave you “motivated, empowered, and ready to take on the world” (Allyson Felix, Olympic gold medalist) as it reveals how Kara broke through the fear of losing everything, bucked powerful forces to take control of her life and career, and reclaimed her love of running.

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Book SynopsisAged 15 and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped on a night out. The injuries she sustained that evening ended her gymnastics career, and eventually manifested in life-long chronic illnesses, which medical professionals now believe can be caused by untreated trauma. In a brilliantly researched and deeply affecting essay, Osborne-Crowley invites the reader to her on decade-long journey to recovery: from the immediate aftermath of the assault, through years of misdiagnosis, to the solace and strength she found in writers like Elena Ferrante. The author’s investigations reveal profound societal failures – of law, justice, education and the healthcare system. An essential contribution to the field of literature on assault and trauma, I Choose Elena argues that it is only through empathy than we can begin to address the self-perpetuating cycle of sexual violence.Trade ReviewMention of the book in ‘Women essayists shift the rules and boundaries in the literary world’ https://www.ft.com/content/e8126aec-b1e3-11e9-bec9-fdcab53d6959 * Financial Times *Review: I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley ‘a thoroughly researched and deeply affecting essay . . . In the age of #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein allegations this essay is an essential contribution to the field of literature on assault and trauma’ https://thefountain.scot/reviews/2019/09/review-i-choose-elena-by-lucia-osborne-crowley/ -- Keira Brown * The Fountain *‘How Bibliotherapy Helped Me To Deal With Trauma’ ‘There is nothing more comforting than having someone bear witness to your suffering. It is the only thing, I believe, that allows us to feel pain instead of trying to escape from it. It is knowing the writer has felt how you feel, and has done the kindness of putting it into words.’ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-bibliotherapy-helped-me-to-deal-with-trauma-ptwdfhhln * The Sunday Times *‘Write what you want to forget’ ‘Honesty is why I started. So I have accepted the fact that this story is imperfect, that people might try to destroy me in the details. It will not be an easy ending, or a pleasant one, but it will be, for the first time, one that I have chosen.’ http://bookanista.com/write-forget/ * Bookanista.com *‘Love After Abuse’ ‘What I have been able to do is accept the truth of my intimate self. I know now that she is bloodied and broken, and perhaps damaged beyond repair. But I am trying, and will keep trying, because whoever was buried under the weight of abuse is worth fighting for.’ https://granta.com/love-after-abuse/ * Granta.com *‘The Paradox of Dependence’ ‘To keep becoming a woman is so much self-erasing work. I will not be the cool girl, the dream girl, the crane-wife, because she is a lie. She is a straw-woman in a field full of hungry ravens, and I am done with her. She’s not worth it, and neither is he.’ https://meanjin.com.au/blog/the-paradox-of-dependence/ * Meanjin Quarterly *‘Two years on, the literature of #MeToo is coming of age’ ‘A masterful examination of trauma and finding solace in literature.’ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/14/literature-metoo-writing-power-gender-relations-men * Guardian *‘A Cure of One’s Own’ ‘In the past couple of years more than a dozen books have been published by women about women’s pain conditions … including Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s I Choose Elena’ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/11/womens-chronic-illness-pain-conditions-endometriosis-vaginismus-vulvodynia-literature -- Imogen West-Knights * New Statesmen *‘Frozen’ ‘For anyone who has ever doubted a rape story, demanding, “Why did you wait so long before you told anyone?”, Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s short memoir is essential reading.’ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/i-choose-elena-by-lucia-osborne-crowley-book-review-terri-apter/ -- Terri Apter * The TLS *‘Is it messed up?’ ‘On the surface, I Choose Elena is an exploration of trauma – of the debilitating and disabling physical and mental impact of the author’s rape as a teenager. The way trauma can turn your body against you; the way you think you can outrun or ignore it, but you never can.’ Summer Issue -- Alice Wickenden * Brixton Review of Books *‘It is a ground breaking approach to discussing issues that we know are so often hidden’ https://twitter.com/SLTNorfolk/status/1339189801195630592 -- Sonia (manager) * Sue Lambert Trust *CRÍTICA A DOS VOCES DE ‘ELIJO A ELENA’, DE LUCÍA OSBORNE- CROWLEY (Joint review of I Choose Elena) Tensi: ‘Todo esto lo cuenta en este libro, que huye de eufemismos y cuenta la realidad sin matices, quizás por eso se debe leer sosegadamente, pues el dolor se puede palpar muy adentro.’ (All of this is recounted in this book, which shuns euphemisms and tells reality without nuances, perhaps this is why one should read it gently, because one can feel the pain deep inside.’ Miriam: ‘Yo elijo a Lucía. Ella me ha liberado. Me ha ayudado a encontrarme.’ (I choose Lucia. She has freed me. She has helped me find myself.’ https://lecturafilia.com/2020/12/21/critica-a-dos-voces-de-elijo-a-elena-de-lucia-osborne-crowley/ -- Tensi Gesteira and Miriam Beizana * Lecturafilia *Shameful: Women who write about their pain suffer a double shaming: once for getting injured, twice for their act of self-exposure ‘In her memoir I Choose Elena (2019), Lucia Osborne-Crowley gives a moving account of a violent sexual assault she underwent as a teenager, and its ensuing aftermath in the form of chronic physical illness.’ https://aeon.co/essays/shame-heaps-upon-shame-in-womens-memoirs-of-suffering -- Katherine Angel * Aeon *

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Book Synopsis100 Women I Know is a collection of accounts of rape and sexual assault. The stories in this book are from women that the editor knows personally, but aims to bring together and foster solidarity between everyone who has been a victim of sexual violence. By exposing the common threads in each story, 100 Women I Know demonstrates the need to redefine rape within society and to further the understanding of consent to help prevent young men and women from becoming perpetrators or survivors of sexual violence. The book gives a voice to all of the brave women who shared their stories and continues the much needed conversation on sexual violence. Thirty percent of money received from book sales will go towards funding educational workshops in schools.Trade ReviewThis brave book has come at a time when finally women are standing together and speaking their truths, sharing their pain in plain sight...it is powerful, bold, and empowering. Daisy Lowe, Femme 100 Women I Know is a much needed read for our society. A book which can encourage more women and girls to speak out against sexual violence. Molly Masters, Books that Matter This project is incredible & helped me articulate events in my life from 20 years ago. Gabriella Apicella, Co Founder of The Underwire Film Festival

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Book SynopsisGrounded in an explicit focus on men's roles and responsibilities in the fight against sexual harassment, this book creates a deeper understanding of why sexual harassment against women occurs and how we, as a society, can better respond to and prevent it. Integrating theoretical analyses with empirical data from interviews with 25 Danish men, the author argues that if we want to eradicate the social and cultural tolerance of sexual harassment and the victim blaming of women, then we need a paradigm-shifting perspective. This book investigates the framing of the debates on sexual harassment, just as it looks deeper into the socialization processes of men, and raises the question of why so many men feel entitled to sexually harass women. This book also explores what part men can play in combating sexual harassment, emphasizing that it is important not only to see men as perpetrators, but also as empowered bystanders. It argues that the #MeToo movement constitutes a potential instructive moment, presenting men with an opportunity for change.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Introduction to sexual harassment.- The Danish #MeToo context.- Why have men not been held responsible?.- Who perpetrates sexual harassment and why.- Men’s responses to #MeToo.- Flirting after #MeToo.- Will men take a stand?.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisActs of sexual violence are often committed with impunity—perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech—both in courts of justice and outside of them. Those who speak out not only advance a politics of accountability, but also an ethics of recognition, suffering, and hurt.Undoing Impunity explores the contours of the politics and ethics pertaining to sexual violence in contemporary South Asian communities. Using a historical lens, V. Geetha closely examines explicitly feminist responses from the region and, drawing from them, suggests that sexual violence and the impunity it claims for itself are best understood in relation to cultural attitudes towards sexuality. In all, Undoing Impunity is an important and timely look at the social, psychological, and legal conditions that allow perpetrators to act without fear of responsibility or guilt. The book forms part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada.

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Book SynopsisBreaching the Citadel, part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and pathbreaking research on sexual violence and impunity. Bringing together both young and established scholars, the book explores medical protocols, the functioning of the law, the psychosocial making of impunity, histories of sexual violence in places like Kashmir, the media, and sectarian violence, among other timely topics. The essays Urvashi Butalia has collected here were developed through comparative research and a series of workshops, so each entry is peer-reviewed and on the cutting edge of the field. Breaching the Citadel breaks new ground as it uncovers and analyzes the link between sexual violence and the structures and institutions that enable perpetrators to act with impunity.

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Book SynopsisPart of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, Of the Nation Born takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling some of the best writing and research to date on sexual violence and impunity. The book brings together both new and established scholars to look at areas as wide-ranging as the law and its histories, nationalism, memory and sexuality, the status of minorities, religion and its directives, universities as sites of gender-contestation, and more. With an introduction by acclaimed scholar Meghna Guhathakurta, the book offers a comprehensive overview of the situation in Bangladesh from the 1971 war for liberation to the present. Guhathakurta gives readers an excellent entry point for understanding the complex realities of how impunity for the perpetrators of sexual violence has become standard in Bangladesh in particular, and South Asia in general. Of the Nation Born is a valuable cross-disciplinary study and the first of its kind.

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Book SynopsisNepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally immune to the influence of colonialism in its neighborhood. A Difficult Transition shows that, in addition to home-grown feudal patriarchal structures, it is the larger colonial and postcolonial context of the subcontinent that has enabled the structuring of inequalities and power relations in Nepal, which today allow for widespread sexual violence and impunity. Recent years have seen an increase in public discussion about sexual violence in Nepal, and the state has created legislation and action plans to address the problem. And yet, impunity for perpetrators remains intact and justice elusive. What are the structures that enable such impunity? And what can be done to change and radically transform these structures? How must states understand the search for justice for victims of sexual violence? Part of the Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, the essays in this volume attempt to trace a history of sexual violence in Nepal, look at the responses of women's groups and society at large, and suggest how this serious and wide-ranging problem may be addressed.

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Book SynopsisAt the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In The Search for Justice, a collection of writers and activists look to history and contemporary politics to examine the root causes of sexual violence in Sri Lanka. Offering an analysis of the polarizations created around ethnic and linguistic identities during the war years and an examination of the routine violence toward women, the authors argue powerfully that Sri Lankan women must not be treated only as victims, but as potential and actual agents of change. Edited by Kumari Jayawardena and Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, the volume points to a hitherto unaddressed aspect of sexual violence: that of the structures and systems that enable impunity on the part of perpetrators. Whether they are security personnel and paramilitary forces, members of armed groups and gangs, local politicians and police, or, often, ordinary citizens including close family members, perpetrators operate with impunity. The Search for Justice is a compelling new installment in the Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia.

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Book SynopsisRape survivors need words to recover and tell their stories. But the words available often fail to describe their experiences, which isolates and silences them, enables future perpetration, and lets rape remain unacknowledged. Tumminio Hansen offers fresh ways of speaking and listening that reframe how we can describe, discuss, and address rape.

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