War on the Homefront: An Examination of Wife Abuse
ISBN: 9781571811172 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About half of the women in the United States and Canada have been physically or sexually assaulted after the age of 16. The figures in other countries are similar. Written by an outsider (an anthropologist) and an insider (a spousal abuse survivor), this book offers a humanistic, rather than statistical, overview of the problem of spousal abuse. It is based on an extensive set of interviews with abused women and individuals who seek to help them (shelter workers, police officers, marriage counselors). More particularly, it follows four women as they move through the steps they must follow... About half of the women in the United States and Canada have been physically or sexually assaulted after the age of 16. The figures in other count... |
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504,63 zł |
Censoring Sex Research: The Debate Over Male Intergenerational Relations
ISBN: 9781611323382 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume sheds light on one of the most explosive episodes of censure of academic scholarship in recent decades. Bruce Rind, a former psychology professor at Temple University, investigated sexual relations between male adults and adolescents through history and across cultures, from highly institutionalized relationships in Ancient Greece and Rome, to 33 contemporary cultures including the USA, and among various species. His conclusions that these relations, when consensual, are not always negative was radical, but based in his research findings. Even before publication of an invited...
This volume sheds light on one of the most explosive episodes of censure of academic scholarship in recent decades. Bruce Rind, a former psychology pr...
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739,10 zł |
Censoring Sex Research: The Debate Over Male Intergenerational Relations
ISBN: 9781611323399 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume sheds light on one of the most explosive episodes of censure of academic scholarship in recent decades. Bruce Rind, a former psychology professor at Temple University, investigated sexual relations between male adults and adolescents through history and across cultures, from highly institutionalized relationships in Ancient Greece and Rome, to 33 contemporary cultures including the USA, and among various species. His conclusions that these relations, when consensual, are not always negative was radical, but based in his research findings. Even before publication of an invited...
This volume sheds light on one of the most explosive episodes of censure of academic scholarship in recent decades. Bruce Rind, a former psychology pr...
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188,55 zł |
Sexual Offending: A Criminological Perspective
ISBN: 9781138697034 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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739,10 zł |
The Price of Love; One Woman's Journey Through Domestic Violence.
ISBN: 9780988642867 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author; Tanisha M. Bagley is an avid Public Speaker when it comes to Speaking out against; Domestic Violence, Rape, Sexual Assault and Stopping the Violence as a whole. It is her own life experiences that led her to travel and speak to others about not getting involved with the violence, dealing with it, reporting it and most of all; healing yourself and moving on, and learning to LOVE yourself. This book is a testament of the tedious journey that Tanisha endured through Domestic Violence, Rape and Sexual Assault. Thus far she has touched the lives of others while being a featured guest on...
Author; Tanisha M. Bagley is an avid Public Speaker when it comes to Speaking out against; Domestic Violence, Rape, Sexual Assault and Stopping the Vi...
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94,90 zł |
Reconsidering Sex Crimes and Offenders: Prosecution or Persecution?
ISBN: 9780810890602 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cutting through the hysteria and hype, Reconsidering Sex Crimes and Offenders: Prosecution or Persecution? argues that while convicted violent sex offenders certainly should be punished, many laws targeting minor sexual offenses are outdated, overly severe, and too concerned with satisfying public outrage driven by distortions, misconceptions, and sensationalistic media coverage. Reconsidering Sex Crimes and Offenders challenges readers' understanding of who sex offenders are, how they should be treated, and how best to protect the community from such offenders. Lisa Anne Zilney and Laura J....
Cutting through the hysteria and hype, Reconsidering Sex Crimes and Offenders: Prosecution or Persecution? argues that while convicted violent sex off...
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302,35 zł |
Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence
ISBN: 9781849351720 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dear Sister, It wasn't your fault; it was never your fault. You did nothing wrong. Hold this tight to your heart: it wasn't your fault. At night when you lay there and your mind fills with images and you wonder if only, if you had . . . if you hadn't . . . . Remember: it wasn't your fault. In Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors. Dear Sister... Dear Sister, It wasn't your fault; it was never your fault. You did nothing wrong. Hold this tight to your heart: it wasn't your f... |
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69,05 zł |
Journal of the Little Girls: A Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Healing
ISBN: 9780615775173 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does it feel for a five-year-old girl who is sexually abused? What does it do to a 12-year-old girl? This account of a child sexually abused from three years old is told in the child's own words as memories are revealed to the adult. Journaled here are the memories of three-year-old Little Little Norma to 16-year-old Big Norma, as the Adult Norma struggles to be a wife and mother. Norma learns that there is healing in remembering and letting go.
How does it feel for a five-year-old girl who is sexually abused? What does it do to a 12-year-old girl? This account of a child sexually abused from ...
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76,81 zł |
Drunks, Pests and Harlots: Criminal Women in Perth and Fremantle, 1900-1939
ISBN: 9781846220425 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Esther Warden was the 'terror' of West End Fremantle and the most dangerous woman in Western Australia. Lilly Doyle kept company with thieves and rogues and was listed as an 'undesirable'. May Ahern was a 'fallen' woman who lured men into dark street corners, tempting them away from the paths of virtue. Esther, Lilly and May were notorious female criminals in early twentieth-century Perth and Fremantle. Criminalised as drunks, prostitutes and vagrants, women committing offences against good order faced a double punishment for their social and gender transgressions. 'Drunks, Pests and Harlots'...
Esther Warden was the 'terror' of West End Fremantle and the most dangerous woman in Western Australia. Lilly Doyle kept company with thieves and rogu...
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145,01 zł |
Quarterly Essay 50: Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny
ISBN: 9781863956024 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard's misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched a nerve. Why? On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female;... |
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91,78 zł |
The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox
ISBN: 9780307588593 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh's mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Amanda Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures in one of central Italy's most beloved cities.
The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher's housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native... Award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh's mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the controversial prosecu...
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86,31 zł |
Rape Loot Pillage: The Political Economy of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
ISBN: 9780190277666 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rape and other forms of sexual violence have always been a feature of war. Yet it is only fairly recently that researchers have identified rape as a deliberate tool of war-making rather than simply an inevitable side effect of armed conflict. Much of the emerging literature has suggested that the underlying causes of rape stem from a single motivation-whether individual, symbolic, or strategic-leading to disagreement in the field about how we can understand and respond to the causes and consequences of sexual violence in war. In Rape Loot Pillage, Sara Meger argues that sexual...
Rape and other forms of sexual violence have always been a feature of war. Yet it is only fairly recently that researchers have identified rape as a d...
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450,57 zł |
Self-Defense for Women: Fight Back
ISBN: 9781594394928 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,04 zł |
Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal
ISBN: 9781250049803 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 An Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Nominee An explosive, sweeping account of the scandal that has sent the Catholic Church into a tailspin -- and the brave few who fought for justice In the mid-1980s a dynamic young monsignor assigned to the Vatican's embassy in Washington set out to investigate the problem of sexually abusive priests. He found a scandal in the making, confirmed by secret files revealing complaints that had been hidden from police... A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 An Edgar Award for B... |
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103,53 zł |
Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence
ISBN: 9781783508938 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A global discourse regarding gender and violence is emerging as feminists, media experts, and social scientists consider the place of gender in episodic acts and chronic conditions of violence. The chapters in this two-part volume offer understandings of the relationship between violence and gender from the global to the domestic level. In Part B, authors trace the history of feminist antiviolence efforts, theorize the reproduction of symbolic gender violence, and show how violence might be re-conceptualized in comparative and intersectional perspective. They show how historical, cultural and...
A global discourse regarding gender and violence is emerging as feminists, media experts, and social scientists consider the place of gender in episod...
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649,17 zł |
The Price of Love; One Woman's Journey Through Domestic Violence.
ISBN: 9780988642898 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author; Tanisha M. Bagley is an avid Public Speaker when it comes to Speaking out against; Domestic Violence, Rape, Sexual Assault and Stopping the Violence as a whole. It is her own life experiences that led her to travel and speak to others about not getting involved with the violence, dealing with it, reporting it and most of all; healing yourself and moving on, and learning to LOVE yourself. This book is a testament of the tedious journey that Tanisha endured through Domestic Violence, Rape and Sexual Assault. Thus far she has touched the lives of others while being a featured guest on...
Author; Tanisha M. Bagley is an avid Public Speaker when it comes to Speaking out against; Domestic Violence, Rape, Sexual Assault and Stopping the Vi...
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189,84 zł |
Warrior Renew: Healing from Military Sexual Trauma
ISBN: 9780826122315 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowing the results of Dr. Katz work and the many lives that she has changed, I feel delighted to endorse her] Warrior Renew workbook for men and women seeking healing from MST. Although the high prevalence rates of MST are discouraging, I am confident that Warrior Renew can reach many, many MST survivors and provide the hope and healing that they need. -Lt. Col. Patricia Jackson-Kelley Quotes from Past Participants: Thank you for your efforts in turning my life around. I have faith now that my life... Knowing the results of Dr. Katz work and the many lives that she has changed, I feel delighted to endorse her] Warrior Renew workbook for men a... |
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150,18 zł |
Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence
ISBN: 9781784411183 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Book Set consists of: *9781783501106 - Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence (Part A) *9781783508938 - Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence (Part B) The chapters in this two-part volume offer understandings of the relationship between violence and gender from the global to the domestic level. In Part A the contributors address the ways in which wartime rape is treated in international courts, why and how the gender language used at the United Nations matters, how asylum-seekers fleeing gendered violence are treated, how the press and the courts frame rape and other...
This Book Set consists of: *9781783501106 - Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence (Part A) *9781783508938 - Gendered Perspectives on Conflict...
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1040,85 zł |
Online Offending Behaviour and Child Victimisation: New Findings and Policy
ISBN: 9781137365095 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring a range of issues including the role of social media and the behaviour and psychopathology of online offenders, this pioneering text provides a comprehensive overview of the established themes and emergent debates relating to the online sexual abuse and victimisation of children.
Exploring a range of issues including the role of social media and the behaviour and psychopathology of online offenders, this pioneering text provide...
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194,97 zł |
Responding to Sexual Offending: Perceptions, Risk Management and Public Protection
ISBN: 9781137358127 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sexual violence is a high-profile, complex and emotive issue which has become central to national and international discourses surrounding risk and risk management, child protection, human rights, criminal justice policy and public protection in modern society. This unique collection brings together a range of international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental understandings and responses to sexual violence.
Exploring a variety of issues, including the management of sexual offending and new and adaptive ways of rehabilitating and... Sexual violence is a high-profile, complex and emotive issue which has become central to national and international discourses surrounding risk and ri...
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389,98 zł |