Sexual Exploitation
Sexual Exploitation

Author: Diana E. H. Russell

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1984-10

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Diana Russell analyses and compares the prevalence and causes of three forms of sexual exploitation -- rape, child sexual abuse, and sexual harassment in the workplace. Although public awareness of sexual and non-sexual abuse of adults and children has grown steadily over the past few years, the three categories have been analysed and treated as separate issues. Diana Russell uses an original analytical framework to integrate extensive literature on these topics, revealing numerous links between issues that are often considered separate and distinct.

Rape, Incest, and Sexual Harassment
Rape, Incest, and Sexual Harassment

Author: Nancy L. Carlson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1989-12-11

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0313367841

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A working guide to the treatment of survivors of sexual victimization, this book treats rape, incest, and harassment as related forms of sexual abuse. It reviews present literature on the long-term effects of sexual assault and considers the services and support that survivors require. Covering a wide range of issues and treatment approaches, focus is placed on the older adolescent and adult. The phases of recovery followng sexual abuse are described together with the type of assistance most appropriate at each phase. The authors provide numerous case studies and emphasize the individuality of both survivor and response. This guide should be used by both professional and layperson to help the sexually abused transcend feelings of victimization. Rape, Incest, and Sexual Harassment discusses the issues raised by victimization. It then deals with the immediate aftermath of sexual abuse focusing on crisis intervention and advocacy with respect to emotional, medical, and legal needs. One section, devoted to counselors working with long-term effects on survivors, matches interventions to the individual client's needs and offers models for counseling frameworks. Special needs are also addressed. The book concludes with a look at the larger social problems associated with abuse and violence.

Redefining Rape
Redefining Rape

Author: Estelle B. Freedman

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-09-03

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0674728491

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The uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that rape remains a word in flux, subject to political power and social privilege. Redefining Rape describes the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the U.S., through the experiences of accusers, assailants, and advocates for change.

Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Author: Louise A. DeSalvo

Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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Many thought Virginia Woolf, author of several classics of modern literature, to be brilliant but mad. Now this astonishing and acclaimed book reveals the awful truth: from the age of six, Virginia was an incest victim. A compassionate account sure to be of comfort to other abuse victims everywhere. Illustrated. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title

The Politics of Rape
The Politics of Rape

Author: Diana Russell

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0595292879

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A feminist perspective on rape illustrated by interviews with twenty-two rape survivors.

Invisible Girls
Invisible Girls

Author: Patti Feuereisen

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2018-12-04

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1580058590

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A powerful source of healing for teen girls and young women who have experienced sexual abuse, Invisible Girls offers survivors agency and hope in an era when too many girls have suffered alone The statistics are staggering. One in four girls will experience sexual abuse by the time she is sixteen, and 48 percent of all rapes involve a young woman under the age of eighteen. It's not surprising then, that in a society where sexual abuse of young women is rampant, many women never share their stories. They remain hidden and invisible. In her pioneering work with young survivors through the last thirty years, Dr. Patti Feuereisen has helped teen girls and young women to find their voices, begin healing, and become visible. In this revised second edition, Dr. Patti's gentle guidance and the girls' powerful stories continue to create an encouraging message: Remarkable healing is possible if girls learn to share their stories in their teens and early twenties. With a new introduction, new chapters, and updated resources, this new edition of Invisible Girls has even more to offer girls, young women, and those who care about them.

Surviving Sexual Violence
Surviving Sexual Violence

Author: Liz Kelly

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-04-26

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0745667430

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Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. Yet this fact continues to be almost wholly ignored. This new study, based on in-depth interviews with 60 women, is the first to cover the experience of a range of forms of sexual violence over women's lifetimes. Drawing on feminist theory, developing a critique of male research and quoting extensively from the women interviewed, it developes feminist thought in several key areas: the similarities and differences between forms of sexual violence; the ways women define their experiences; and the strategies women use in resisting, coping with and surviving sexual violence. The author stresses the importance for all women of recognizing the incidents of sexual violence in their lives and seeing themselves and other women as survivors rather than victims. In highlighting the ways in which the media, the criminal justice system and even the "helping" profess ions contribute to the trivialization of sexual violence, she demonstrates the necessity of women organizing collectively to end this suffering.

The Incest Diary
The Incest Diary

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-11

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1408890429

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Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her twenties. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires. Even after she broke away, even as she grew into an independent and adventurous young woman, she continued to seek out new versions of the violence, submission and secrecy she had struggled to leave behind. In this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermath - not from a clinical distance, but from deep within - to explore the ways in which her father's abuse shaped her, and still does. As a matter of psychic survival, she became both a sexual object and a detached observer, a dutiful daughter and the protector of a dirty secret. And then, years later, she made herself write it down. With lyric concision, in vignettes of almost unbearable intensity, this writer tells a story that is shocking but that will ring true to many other survivors of abuse. It has never been faced so directly on the page.

Rape, Incest, Battery
Rape, Incest, Battery

Author: Miriam Kalman Harris

Publisher: TCU Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780875652306

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According to Harris, a woman discovers a new identity by becoming the "subject who writes" rather than the victim who waits in silence. Knowing that the problem of violence against women is universal in our world, Harris put out a call to professional writers, women in shelters, and scholars in academe. She advertised in literary journals and newsletters, asking for autobiographical writings by women who survived any kind of violence and abuse. Rape, Incest, Battery resulted from her long process of collecting, selecting, and editing.