Sexual abuse and harassment Books
Tyndale House Publishers What Is a Girl Worth
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£15.19
PublicAffairs Awakening: #Metoo and the Global Fight for
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£22.40
Amazon Publishing Don't Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the
Book SynopsisIn a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award–winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own personal demons. In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims—more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways. Tamara’s twenty-year compulsion to follow the investigation began. She needed to question a failed system. She needed to know the women whose lives were irrevocably altered. And she needed to face the root of her obsession with Hull and his crimes. In interviewing, befriending, and profoundly connecting with Hull’s survivors, Tamara crafts a unique true-crime narrative. It not only reveals the struggles of the justice system to help victims of sexual violence but explores how these resilient women—and Tamara herself—strove to reclaim their power in the wake of indelible trauma.Trade Review“This title will satisfy readers who seek out true crime written from a personal angle, like Erika Krouse's Tell Me Everything (2022), and those who appreciate precisely detailed and unflagging police and journalistic work in search of justice, like Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2018).” —Booklist
£18.99
Steerforth Press Don't Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith
Book SynopsisAs seen in Season Two of the HBO docuseries THE VOWThey draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you know, you just joined a cult.Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced labor. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing. Gaslighting. Investigative journalist Sarah Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere and many enablers. Through the accounts of central NXIVM figures, Berman uncovers how dozens of women seeking creative coaching and networking opportunities instead were blackmailed, literally branded, near-starved, and enslaved. Don't Call It a Cult is a riveting account of NXIVM's rise to power, its ability to evade prosecution for decades, and the investigation that finally revealed its dark secrets to the world.
£999.99
Steerforth Press Had it Coming: Rape Culture Meets #MeToo: Now
Book SynopsisHad It Coming is not a diatribe or manifesto, but an informed look at how attitudes around sexual behavior have changed and still need to change. As a culture we aren't very good at having nuanced, complicated discussions, Doolittle writes in her introduction. The public space is not a safe venue to talk about controversial subjects. Social media has seen to that . . . I've come to embrace the complexities and messiness that comes with those tough conversations.Doolittle brings a personal voice to what has been a turning point for most women: the #MeToo movement and its aftermath. The world is now increasingly aware of the pervasiveness of rape culture in which powerful men got away with sexual assault and harassment for years, but Doolittle looks beyond specific cases to the big picture. The issue of consent figures largely: not only is the public confused about what it means, but an astounding number of legal authorities are too.
£15.26
Steerforth Press Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo
Book SynopsisRiveting . . . harrowing and propulsive. —The New York Times Book Review*One of The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2021 (Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly)* This powerful story shouldn’t be missed. —Publishers Weekly (starred review) With subject matter like this, you’d expect the book to be worthy, important, but hard-going. You’d be two-thirds right. The same qualities that prompted Toufah to break the barriers she did have allowed her to leaven the tale with humour, and a lot more of the good she encountered along the way than the bad that set her on her path. --The Toronto Star An incandescent and inspiring memoir of resilience from a courageous young woman whose powerful advocacy brings to mind the presence, resolve, and moral authority of Malala and Greta ThunbergBefore launching an unprecedented protest movement, Fatou Toufah Jallow was just a 19-year-old dreaming of a scholarship. Encouraged by her mother to pursue her own ambitions, Toufah entered a presidential competition purportedly designed to identify the country's smart young women and support their educational and career goals. Toufah won. Yahya Jammeh, the dictator who had ruled The Gambia all of Toufah's life, styled himself as a pious yet progressive protector of women. At first he behaved in a fatherly fashion toward Toufah, but then proposed marriage, and she turned him down. On a pretext, his female cousin then lured Toufah to the palace, where he drugged and raped her. Toufah could not tell anyone. There was literally no word for rape in her native language. If she told her parents, they would take action, and incur Jammeh's wrath. Wearing a niqab to hide her identity, she gave Jammeh’s security operatives the slip and fled to Senegal. Her eventual route to safety in Canada is full of close calls and intrigue. 18 months after Jammeh was deposed, Toufah Jallow became the first woman in The Gambia to make a public accusation of rape against him, sparking marches of support and a social media outpouring of shared stories among West African women under #IAmToufah. Each brave and bold decision she made set Toufah on the path to reclaim the personal growth and education that Jammeh had tried to steal from her, a future also of leadership and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence, especially in heavily patriarchal countries lacking resources and laws to protect women and even the language with which to speak openly about sexual threats and violence. “This terrific book had me on the edge of my seat, and sends an inspiring message to all women about the power of their voice.” --Anna Maria Tremonti “My (s)heroes do not wear capes... they call out injustices with enough grace and forgiveness to heal anyone that hears their story. Toufah is that graceful shero the world desperately needs.” --Celina Caesar-Chavannes “Toufah's story is horrifying and infuriating, but ultimately also hopeful and inspiring because of what she was able to achieve out of such darkness. To anyone who cares about addressing gender-based violence, this is essential reading.” --Robyn Doolittle
£15.26
PublicAffairs,U.S. Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed
Book SynopsisYou've heard the stories about the dark side of the internet--hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn--but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you.Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed blog post cobbled together from private information, half-truths, and outright fictions, along with a rallying cry to the online hordes to go after her. They answered in the form of a so-called movement known as #gamergate--they hacked her accounts; stole nude photos of her; harassed her family, friends, and colleagues; and threatened to rape and murder her. But instead of shrinking into silence as the online mobs wanted her to, she raised her voice and spoke out against this vicious online culture and for making the internet a safer place for everyone.In the years since #gamergate, Quinn has helped thousands of people with her advocacy and online-abuse crisis resource Crash Override Network. From locking down victims' personal accounts to working with tech companies and lawmakers to inform policy, she has firsthand knowledge about every angle of online abuse, what powerful institutions are (and aren't) doing about it, and how we can protect our digital spaces and selves.Crash Override offers an up-close look inside the controversy, threats, and social and cultural battles that started in the far corners of the internet and have since permeated our online lives. Through her story--as target and as activist--Quinn provides a human look at the ways the internet impacts our lives and culture, along with practical advice for keeping yourself and others safe online.
£19.80
Book*hug Crying Wolf: A Memoir
Book SynopsisIt's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway. After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain that a man who wasn't her husband, who she had agreed to go on a date with, had just raped her. Or go home and pray that, in the morning, it would be only a nightmare.In the years that followed, Eden was met with disbelief by strangers, friends, and the authorities, often as a result of stigma towards her non-monogamy, sex positivity, and bisexuality. Societal conditioning of acceptable female sexuality silenced her to a point of despair, leading to addiction and even attempted suicide. It was through the act of writing that she began to heal.Crying Wolf is a gripping memoir that shares the raw path to recovery after violence and spotlights the ways survivors are too often demonized or ignored when they belong to marginalized communities.Boudreau heralds a new era for others who were dismissed for "crying wolf." After all, women prevailing to change society for others is a tale as old as time, too.Trade Review“Boudreau’s early passion for writing and reading turned out to be key to her recovery. On the advice of her therapist, she took up her pen and joined a writing retreat with a literary idol. In the end, she weighed the potential shame of going public with a trial against taking charge of her own story and how it would be told. Crying Wolf is the result of that choice: a battle cry for women who have survived assault.” —Foreword ReviewsTable of ContentsAuthor’s NoteChapter I. Two Roads DivergedChapter II. Tea and ConsentChapter III. Sex and LiesChapter IV. Peeling The OnionChapter V. TriggeredChapter VI. Detective No JusticeChapter VII. Fine LinesChapter VIII. ComatoseChapter IX. Finding PurposeChapter X. Margaret and The BirdsChapter XI. Hard TruthsChapter XII. Don’t Read the CommentsChapter XIII. No Fucks Left to GiveChapter XIV. Returning To the Scene
£17.95
Demeter Press RAPE CULTURE 101: Programming Change
Book SynopsisMany people have been victims of rape, but we are all victims of what has been called a “rape culture.” This topic deserves more attention towards education and prevention, and not just on the college campus. Rape culture is an idea that links rape and sexual violence to the culture of a society, and in which commonly-held beliefs, attitudes and practices normalize, excuse, tolerate, and even condone rape. This edited collection examines rape culture in the context of the current programming–attitudes, education, and awareness. Contributors explore changing the programming in terms of educational processes, practices and experiences associated with rape culture across diverse cultural, historical, and geographic locations. The complexity of rape culture is discussed from a variety of contexts and perspectives, as this volume contains interdisciplinary academic submissions from educators and students, as well as experiential accounts from members of various community settings who are doing work aimed at making a positive difference towards programming change.
£26.07
McSweeney's Publishing Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From the
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£20.15
Rutgers University Press Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and
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
£999.99
Rutgers University Press The Prism of Human Rights: Seeking Justice amid
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
£28.90
Brill U Schoningh War and Sexual Violence: New Perspectives in a
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£153.90
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Depredadores sagrados: Pederastía clerical en
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£15.26
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La fosa de agua: Desapariciones y feminicidios en
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£13.46
CRIMENES SEXUALES PSICOPATOLOGIA DEL DELITO
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£28.68
Ediciones B Crónica del caso Maristas
£22.32
Zubaan The Search for Justice – The Sri Lanka Papers
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.
£999.99
