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When talented journalist Penelope "Casey" Harrison starts to research a piece about the #MeToo movement that includes an incident in her own life that she has been trying to put out of her mind for years, she does not realize the young man who drugged and assaulted her at a fraternity house party in college is now a wealthy, powerful industrialist on the eve of a merger that will make him a billionaire - and who will do anything, even murder, to cover...
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"From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the 'Me too' movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words--me too--and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always have the courage to say 'me too.' As a child, she reeled...
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The MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender violence prevention models that actually work. The Bystander Moment tells the story of one of the most prominent and proven of these models – the innovative bystander approach developed by pioneering scholar and activist Jackson Katz and his colleagues at Northeastern University’s Center for the Study...
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"From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors. In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and...
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In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse...
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A Memoir of Extreme Sexual Abuse and Child Trafficking:Norma Okun offers a harrowing, raw memoir of extreme childhood sexual abuse and child trafficking at the hands of cultists who destroyed her childhood-and continued to follow and destroy her adult life, including ensuring her parental rights were terminated and her husband's career was ruined.
Amazingly, Norma perseveres in living to tell her truth, a quality she attributes to the wonder of meeting...
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Jesus wanted me to write this book to help other people throughout the world. When I was sexually abused by my dad. There were no books in the library to help me understand. I thought I was the only one in this world that this happened to. I prayed and asked Jesus to help me and send me other girls that this had happened to and Jesus answered my prayers and let me know a lot of victims.
Amen.
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This first part of the series of my books is only the beginning of what I, and I believe nobody else, has ever experienced in their life. It is the most detrimental extreme torture of what a child, teenager, adolescent, adult, mother, and wife could ever go through. My story is a true story, and I wish and hope it helps others to not step into the same footprints I have made. The life story starts out about a little two-year-old girl who was given...
9) Violences envers les femmes: Réalités complexes et nouveaux enjeux dans un monde en transformation
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Des chercheurs, des intervenants et des décideurs d'Amérique du Nord et d'Europe s'interrogent sur les différentes façons de concevoir la violence envers les femmes partout dans le monde. Ils tentent d'en comprendre les causes et les conséquences et cherchent à développer différentes réponses sociales pour satisfaire les besoins différenciés des personnes aux prises avec ce problème.
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Based on a true story that begins in rural Northern California, a small girl grapples with a psychopathic father who abuses her himself and traffics her to a pedophile ring centered in a mansion riddled with secret rooms. The father participates in punishment rituals at nonpaying clients and lives on the funds generated from this and trafficking his daughter. The child’s mother works at night and is unaware of what horrors are befalling her daughter...
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Conversations With a Pedophile is a landmark book: it is the first time the uncensored voice of a pedophile can be heard. Presented are a series of letters spanning a decade written by sex offender "Alan" to author Dr. Amy Hammel-Zabin, a therapist in the prison where he was incarcerated. Confessing that he had sexually abused more than one thousand boys, his first-hand stories are a compelling argument that the danger of the pedophile does not lurk...
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El papa Benedicto XVI la calificó como la mayor crisis de la Iglesia católica. Los síntomas se empezaron a conocer mucho antes, pues ya en los años cincuenta algunas diócesis estadounidenses empezaban a entrever el problema, sin embargo, una Iglesia asustada y a la defensiva no supo reaccionar con valentía ante el horror de los casos de pederastia en su seno. Miles de menores inocentes pagarían por esta cobardía y tibieza. A día de hoy, en...
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En este libro, la autora identifica algunos estándares y plantea recomendaciones para el Estado colombiano y las empresas en Colombia, a partir de la determinación de las obligaciones en materia de prevención de la trata de personas y como corresponsables, según los instrumentos internacionales sobre la trata de personas y empresas y derechos humanos, así como a la luz del derecho colombiano. La presente investigación es de utilidad para personas...
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La violence sexuelle est un grave problème de santé publique qui touche chaque année des millions de personnes dans le monde. Elle est due à de nombreux facteurs, se manifestant dans des situations sociales, psychologiques, culturelles et économiques très variées. La violence sexuelle a de profondes répercussions sur le bien-être physique, émotionnel, mental et social des victimes, en plus de générer un grand coût pour la société.
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15) The Shroud Maker
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The discriminatory Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy forbade the open service by Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual soldiers. Dr. Nikolov shares personal stories while he was a Drill Sergeant in the U.S. Army concerning the witnessed sexual harassment of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual recruits during this era.
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Recently the #MeToo movement has, spurred a great cultural shift in the conversation about sexual abuse; however, Leta Greene believes there is still a missing piece in this topic, one that shows, how to move from only, surviving to thriving. Once a scared little girl, victimized by years of abuse, secrets, and lies that took a toll on her mentally, physically, and spiritually, Leta found a way to leave the darkness and has created a life of freedom,...
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Cette histoire, qui en est une parmi tant d'autres, est à l'origine du recours collectif qui a été intenté contre la Province canadienne de la Congrégation de Sainte-Croix et qui leur a coûté 18 millions $. Pourtant, au début, tout ce que nous voulions, ce n'était que des excuses!
Durant l'année scolaire 1976-1977, j'étudiais en secondaire 2 au Collège Notre-Dame de Montréal et mes difficultés récurrentes en mathématiques ont réapparu....
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Acoso callejero, intentos de violación y parientes exhibicionistas son algunas de las escenas que aparecen en estas páginas como muestra del horror cotidiano que padece la mujer. Yo te creo. Testimonios de abuso a mujeres chilenas, contiene además testimonios anónimos extraídos del Informe Valech que sorprenden por su crudeza.
Bajo dictadura los militares chilenos torturaron y violentaron sexualmente a las mujeres que caían detenidas. Aparecen...
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El abuso sexual puede ocurrir en cualquier escenario: en la casa, en el trabajo, en un consultorio o en la calle. ¿Qué es lo que lleva a alguien a perpetrar este acto, de por sí aberrante, sobre una mujer? Para el discurso conservador dominante, el vestirse de manera provocadora sería una de sus causas. En las antípodas, para el feminismo radical, el abuso sexual es constitutivo del régimen del patriarcado, y la moda, una de sus herramientas....
20) Unspoken
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Everyone has a mask they wear, and everyone has a story to tell. Though some are considerably darker than others. This is displayed perfectly in the tragic, yet inspiring book, "Unspoken". Author, Robina Ehana, regales her audience with the shocking and heartbreaking experience that is being violated at a young age by someone very close. She illuminates the often hidden dynamics of a toxic and abusive family unit. And she does so all whilst reminding...
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