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In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note: the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say,...
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Revised and updated to include current studies, politics, and discussions, The Macho Paradox is the first book to show how violence against women is a male issue as well as a female one - and how we can come together to stop it.
Written by pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz, The Macho Paradox incorporates the voices and experiences of women and men who have confronted the problem from all angles, the discussions surrounding currents events...
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Liars-Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits - as well as your tax dollars and your liberties-with threats of rising oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable future consequences of "climate change." In pursuing their anti-energy, anti-capitalist, and pro-government agenda,...
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Challenges the notions that "violence against women" is synonymous with "domestic violence" and that violence affects all women equally
Structural Violence seeks to redraw the conventional map of violence against women. In order to understand violence as a fundamentally heterogeneous phenomenon, it is essential to go beyond interpersonal partner violence and analyze the workings of institutional and structural violence. Self-help books, some shelters,...
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Desde su experiencia de vida personal y profesional, así como con el testimonio de vivencias reales de muchas mujeres de varios países, Ana Goffin nos ofrece este texto.
Mujeres sobrevivientes del Violento Ataque del Cocodrilo. El mundo está en reset, en cambio. Atravesamos una crisis muy profunda. Es momento de reconstruirnos. Aprender y comprender". En este práctico y profundo libro, Ana Goffin nos enseña que, aunque la adversidad toca nuestras...
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In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at controversial topics such as lateral violence, challenges...
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An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violence
From Harvey Weinstein to Brett Kavanaugh, accusations of gender violence saturate today's headlines. In this fully revised edition of Gender Violence, Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan bring together a new, interdisciplinary group of scholars, with up-to-date material on emerging issues like workplace harassment, transgender...
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"Women's rights activist Laura Bates is no stranger to misogynistic attacks online, but over time, the vitriol hinted at something widespread and toxic. Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women as Bates traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spiderweb of groups. Drawing parallels to other extremist movements around the world, Bates shows what attracts men to the movement, how it grooms and radicalizes...
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Other Girls to Burn is a collection of essays that explores the relationship between women and violence within such contexts as the 2014 Isla Vista shooting, early Christian virgin martyrs (discussed in relation with modern true crime stories), mixed martial arts, and rape culture. Formally, inventive and lyric leaning, these essays shift between cultural criticism and personal essay and cohere around a central motif of female mystics. With them,...
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In Just Policing: My Journey to Police Reform, Ed Cronin offers new and exciting possibilities and solutions to fix our broken criminal justice system. It is a story of the police empowering communities to overcome issues from deep systemic racism to international crime and corruption and to do so in a way that has brought about tremendous healing and growth to all places and locations that he has worked.Many police departments and communities of...
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Dans ce livre, la place est principalement donnée à des femmes qui ont subi le viol, l'inceste et d'autres formes de violences.
Certaines témoignent pour la première fois, avec beaucoup d'émotion et de pudeur. Elles ont souhaité le faire afin que chacun prenne conscience de l'ampleur des souffrances qui, bien souvent, ne guérissent pas complètement. Dix témoignages pour parler. C'est bien là l'essentiel : parler. Parce que c'est le début...
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Gender, Violence, and Justice is a volume of collected essays by an expert in the field of violence against women and pastoral theology. It represents over three decades of research, advocacy, and pastoral theological reflection on the subject of sexual and domestic violence. Topics include intimate partner violence, sexual abuse and trauma, and clergy sexual misconduct; controversial theological issues such as forgiveness; and, as well, positive...
14) Unreported
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75% of people do not report sexual violence.
First, let that sink in. Second, ask the obvious, Why?
The answer is complex, and in Unreported, author Kaley Roberts explores it from every angle.
This book contains the true stories of those who experienced sexual violence and didn't report, in-depth research on those who did report and didn't get the outcome they deserved, and interviews with experts. Unreported is a work of persuasive nonfiction,...
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• Denmark is set to achieve 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030.
• Iceland has topped the gender equality rankings for a decade and counting.
• South Korea's average life expectancy will soon reach ninety.
How have these places achieved such remarkable outcomes? And how can we apply those lessons to our own communities?
The future we want is already here - it's just not evenly distributed. By bringing together for the first time tried and...
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The genocides of modern history--Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, the Holocaust, and countless others--and their effects have been well documented, but how do the experiences of female victims and perpetrators differ from those of men? In Women and Genocide, human rights advocates and scholars come together to argue that the memory of trauma is gendered and that women's voices and perspectives are key to our understanding of the dynamics that emerge in...
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Political activist and writer Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz brought an insightful eye and a sharp analytical mind to probe the problems facing America at the turn of the century. First published in 1992, the hard-hitting essays in this collection scan the connections across a wide range of issues: whether the topic is class, racism, Israel and Palestine, war, anti-Semitism, violence against women or violence by women, the issue is power-in all its complexity....
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A groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors.
Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Among Armenians, the tattooed survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr...
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More than one in five women and 5 percent of men are sexually assaulted while at college. Some survivors are coming forward; others are not. In We Believe You, students from every kind of college and university-large and small, public and private, highly selective and less so-share experiences of trauma, healing, and everyday activism, representing a diversity of races, economic and family backgrounds, gender identities, immigration statuses, interests,...
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The debate over sexual violence on campus is reaching fever pitch, from headlines about out-of-control fraternities, to the "mattress protests" by female students at Columbia University and other colleges.
The Hunting Ground, the new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, has taken this debate to a new level, becoming a galvanizing catalyst for discussion at the hundreds of campuses where the documentary is being screened...
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