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Outcry Response is a book about sexual abuse for educators and
administrators of all private and public learning institutions,
organizations, and nontraditional settings. How to listen, respond,
report, and recognize the often-disturbing signs of sexual abuse
are noted for the purpose of building confidence as a mandated
reporter. Survivors need responses of compassion, support, empathy,
and recognition for their courage since the sexual assault was not
their fault. Many survivors, past offenders, educators, and related
agency personnel have assisted in describing the aftermath of
sexual abuse and how educators can help. Compassion fatigue and
exhaustion can lead a listener to inadvertently react with shock,
shaming, repulsion, or silence. The solution is self-care with
definitions and options provided in Outcry Response Trauma informed
research and practices have made mandatory reporting, open
communication, and safer campuses much more manageable. This
wonderful book provides a variety of examples of trauma informed
responses within educationally based scenarios of sexual abuse. The
Department of Education websites for all fifty states and community
programs enumerated within Outcry Response provide our educators
and administrators with numerous resources about sexual abuse to
use in their primary role of compassionately educating students of
all ages.
'He pushed open the door, and I saw that he was pulling something
out of a bag he was carrying. It was a gun - a sawn-off shotgun.'
Featured on ITV's Lorraine with Michael Sheen and Rachel Williams.
Darren was funny and attractive, and 21-year-old Rachel fell
head-over-heels for him; it wasn't long before they moved in
together, and she fell pregnant with his child. But his inner
demons soon surfaced... Weakened and alone, Rachel was beaten and
tormented by him for 18 years, until one day, Darren turned up at
her place of work with a shotgun and left her for dead. But her
ordeal wasn't over... Devastating yet inspiring, Rachel's story of
hope tells of how you can always find the light, even in the very
darkest of times. 'Incredibly poignant and powerful.' - Victoria
Derbyshire 'Transformative. Life changing.' - Michael Sheen
This book critically examines socio-political constructions of risk
related to sexual offending behaviour by and among children and
young people and charts the rise of harmful sexual or exploitative
behaviour among peers, drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks
and primary research. Discussion of these behaviours is exhibited
against a backdrop of the premature cultural sexualisation of
contemporary childhood, which challenges traditional conceptions of
childhood, victimhood and gendered sexual identities more broadly.
It examines the complexities of peer-based sexual behaviours in a
range of settings, including within organisational contexts such as
schools and care homes, within families and peer-based
relationships, as well as online contexts including sexting and
cyberbullying. It draws out the myriad legal, practical and policy
challenges of negotiating the boundaries between
normal/experimental, risky/problematic and harmful sexual
behaviour, and in particular the demarcation between coercion and
consent, both for professionals as well as children and young
people themselves.
The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by
leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism
and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into
three sections. This first section , 'Frontiers', contains essays
on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then
newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye:
transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black
motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism.
Essays in the second section, 'Fields', specifically intervene into
long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of
theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist
feminism. Finally, the third section, 'Forms', is dedicated to
literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist
dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos,
memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions
into the thinking and theorising of contemporary feminism.
When Gail Hovey was a teenager, her local Presbyterian church hired
Georgia, a seminary-trained Christian education director. Brilliant
and charismatic, Georgia used the language of faith to seduce
several of her students, swearing each to secrecy. When she
eventually abandoned the others and focused on Gail, Gail believed
herself uniquely blessed and for the next 15 years modeled her life
on Georgia's-the seminary degree, the minister husband. The
relationship had a profound and lasting influence on the woman Gail
became and left her a legacy of guilt and shame. Shedding light on
the largely invisible issue of sexual abuse of girls by women,
Hovey's brave memoir relates her decades-long journey-from East
Harlem to South Africa to Brooklyn-to break free of an
overwhelmingly powerful and deeply destructive first love.
Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on
South Africa's contemporary epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on
over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts, Thornberry
reconstructs the history of rape in South Africa's Eastern Cape,
from the precolonial era to the triumph of legal and sexual
segregation, and digs deep into questions of conceptions of sexual
consent. Through this process, Thornberry also demonstrates the
political stakes of disputes over sexual consent, and the ways in
which debates over the regulation of sexuality shaped both white
and black politics in this period. From customary authority to
missionary Christianity and humanitarian liberalism to
segregationism, political claims implied theories of sexual
consent, and enabled distinctive claims to control female
sexuality. The political history of rape illuminates not only South
Africa's contemporary crisis of sexual violence, but the entangled
histories of law, sexuality, and politics across the globe.
Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical
Engagements stages a critical engagement between religious texts
and the problem of sexual violence. Rape and other forms of sexual
violence are widespread on college and university campuses; they
also occur in sacred texts and religious traditions. The volume
addresses these difficult intersections as they play out in texts,
traditions, and university contexts. The volume gathers
contributions from religious studies scholars to engage these
questions from a variety of institutional contexts and to offer a
constructive assessment of religious texts and traditions.
Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence
against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the
widespread sexual exploitation and abuse suffered by enslaved
women, with comparatively little attention paid to the stories of
men. However, a careful reading of extant sources reveals that
sexual assault of enslaved men also occurred systematically and in
a wide variety of forms, including physical assault, sexual
coercion, and other intimate violations. To tell the story of men
such as Rufus?who was coerced into a sexual union with an enslaved
woman, Rose, whose resistance of this union is widely
celebrated?historian Thomas A. Foster interrogates a range of
sources on slavery: early American newspapers, court records,
enslavers' journals, abolitionist literature, the testimony of
formerly enslaved people collected in autobiographies and in
interviews, and various forms of artistic representation. Foster's
sustained examination of how black men were sexually violated by
both white men and white women makes an important contribution to
our understanding of masculinity, sexuality, the lived experience
of enslaved men, and the general power dynamics fostered by the
institution of slavery. Rethinking Rufus illuminates how the
conditions of slavery gave rise to a variety of forms of sexual
assault and exploitation that affected all members of the
community.
In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of
Canada ruled that evidence of "battered woman syndrome" was
admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of
killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the trials of
eleven battered women, ten of whom killed their partners, in the
fifteen years since Lavallee. Drawing extensively on trial
transcripts and a rich expanse of interdisciplinary sources, the
author looks at the evidence produced at trial and at how
self-defence was argued. By illuminating these cases, this book
uncovers the practical and legal dilemmas faced by battered women
on trial for murder.
This Element describes child sexual abuse and the formal
organizations in which it can occur, reviews extant perspectives on
child abuse, and explains how an organization theory approach can
advance understanding of this phenomenon. It then elaborates the
main paths through which organizational structures can influence
child sexual abuse in organizations and analyze how these
structures operate through these paths to impact the perpetration,
detection, and response to abuse. The analysis is illustrated
throughout with reports of child sexual abuse published in a
variety of sources. The Element concludes with a brief discussion
of the policy implications of this analysis.
After 40 years of activists working to reduce sexual violence on
college campuses, in 2014, the new Campus Anti-Rape Movement (CARM)
finally put this issue on the national policy agenda. President
Barack Obama credited "an inspiring wave of student-led activism"
for catapulting campus rape into public consciousness. This book
positions the new CARM within a long history of anti-sexual
violence activism in the U.S. The authors describe the major events
of this new movement and how it coalesced. The authors also analyze
the new CARM through a social movement lens, and examine the role
of new laws and social media in facilitating movement successes.
The book argues that the new CARM laid the groundwork for the
emergence of #MeToo, the highest profile campaign against sexual
harassment/violence to date in U.S. history.
Berlin. Eleven past eleven. Art teacher Melissa is about to do
something drastic. Seeking a place to hide, her ex-pupil Mehdi
interrupts her momentum. Both embark on a turbulent journey,
painting and battling their way through the past. This explosive
new play about self-destruction and rebirth attempts to understand
the fear currently gripping the European psyche, and the threats
that may be posed by our own alienated youth.
In Buried in the Heart, Erin Baines explores the political agency
of women abducted as children by the Lord's Resistance Army in
northern Uganda, forced to marry its commanders, and to bear their
children. Introducing the concept of complex victimhood, she argues
that abducted women were not passive victims, but navigated complex
social and political worlds that were life inside the violent armed
group. Exploring the life stories of thirty women, Baines considers
the possibilities of storytelling to reclaim one's sense of self
and relations to others, and to generate political judgement after
mass violence. Buried in the Heart moves beyond victim and
perpetrator frameworks prevalent in the field of transitional
justice, shifting the attention to stories of living through mass
violence and the possibilities of remaking communities after it.
The book contributes to an overlooked aspect of international
justice: women's political agency during wartime.
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