Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Sexual Abuse & Harassment

Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the first direct exploration of FSA victimhood, this book analyses:

• why victims of FSA remain so underexplored and invisible as objects of human science knowledge;
• the limited and overly rigid discourses in local and global psychological theory and practice that...

Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the first direct exploration of FSA victimhood, this book analyses:

• why victims of FSA remain so underexplored and invisible as objects of human science knowledge;
• the limited and overly rigid discourses in local and global psychological theory and practice that...

This book examines how digital communications technologies have transformed modern societies, with profound effects both for everyday life, and for everyday crimes. Sexual violence, which is recognized globally as a significant human rights problem, has likewise changed in the digital age. Through an investigation into our increasingly and ever-normalised digital lives, this study analyses the rise of technology-facilitated sexual assault, revenge pornography, online sexual harassment and gender-based hate speech. Drawing on ground-breaking research into the nature and extent of...

Her mother was raped. This is how Melanie was born. For years, the sight of Melanie's face reminded her mother of the sexual assault, so Melanie herself was verbally and physically abused through childhood. But Melanie's obligation was to love and honor her mother, she told herself. This is what Melanie believed as a Christian, and it's what she believed even more so after converting to Islam.

In the Qur'an, God commanded, "Reverence the wombs that bore you." But what if those wombs broke you, and incited deep emotional trauma? What then?

In this groundbreaking book about...

This book provides the first systematic overview of the theoretical, empirical, clinical, and police issues related to sexual murderers and murder. Bringing together leading researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners from across eight different countries, this is a truly international collaboration and an essential reference text for students, researchers and professionals interested in sexual homicide, as well as an exhaustive source of guidelines for the assessment and treatment of sexual murderers.

Whereas many books on this topic focus on a single aspect of sexual homicide,...

Stand Up is a collaborative book of motivational and inspirational short stories from authors throughout the United States. To many people are fighting each and everyday to survive. Many can not see a solution to reach the end of the tunnel. Regardless if you were born gay, in an abusive relationship you don't have to stay down, you can raise above it.

"I learned from all six of these short stories" This book is designed for everyone."

--Mrs. Yulanda Barbara Freeman

Houston, Texas

"My dear cousin Teresa Hailey, you have worked many long years on this book, I pray...

One in four women will experience domestic violence. We all know a woman whose life is dominated and controlled by her partner - and we might not even realize it.

Many women find themselves in the thrall of the Charm Syndrome Man, a man whose distinct pattern of behavior and use of charm ultimately serves to gain control over the woman. In the new edition of her classic work, Sandra Horley CBE draws on almost four decades supporting abused women to provide an insight into the reality behind the mask of the charming man.

The book's aim is to show women they are not alone and to...

Worthless No More

Mishell's life was defined by the words her parents used to describe her; good-for-nothing, idiot, lazy, stupid and worthless, along with many others. She learned that people who love you also hurt you. Her young life was filled with anxiety about keeping her parents happy to keep from hearing the words that tore into her soul and broke her down. As a young teenager all she wanted was to escape the family she was born into and the pain she endured at home. Mishell believed a boy would be able to save her from her abusive, dysfunctional family.

Just...

Mishell's life was defined by the words her parents used to describe her; good-for-nothing, idiot, lazy, stupid and worthless, along with many others. She learned that people who love you also hurt you. Her young life was filled with anxiety about keeping her parents happy to keep from hearing the words that tore into her soul and broke her down. As a young teenager all she wanted was to escape the family she was born into and the pain she endured at home. Mishell believed a boy would be able to save her from her abusive, dysfunctional family.

Just before her fifteenth birthday,...

In the paperback edition of her book, Sharonda Jones makes her literary debut in what she calls her through-story of overcoming fears associated with abandonment and anxiety, as well as breaking chains from the emotional and physical abuse of her childhood and young adult life. Once a runaway seeking shelter to the founder of a non-profit S.T.E.A.M.-based youth empowerment organization, Sharonda shares how God's grace was more than enough to deliver her from a path that was destined to end in despair.

Sharonda allows readers to see her insecurities and weaknesses, and...