Given their rhetoric on safeguarding, the response of religious organisations to abuse by the clergy - sexual, physical and spiritual - has been inept, thoughtless, mean, and without any sense of urgency. Sex, Power, Control explores the underlying reasons for the mishandling of recent abuse cases. Using psychoanalytical and sociological insights, and including her own experiences as shown in the BBC documentary Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret, Gardner asks why the Churches find themselv...
Flashcards for Medical Response to Adult Sexual Assault
by Linda E Ledray and Ann Wolbert Burgess
The Five Most Dangerous Places for Women (From the Files of Linda Fairstein, #4)
by Linda Fairstein
How Serial Rapists Target Their Victims (From the Files of Linda Fairstein, #2)
by Linda Fairstein
Without Permission - A Spiritual Journey to Healing
by Sharon R Wells
The shocking true story of one of Britain’s most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations In the late 1970s, at least seven women fell victim to a sexual predator haunting the streets of Bristol. After years of failed attempts to catch the ‘Clifton Rapist’, the police formulated a daring new plan. A small group of young female officers – some aged just 18 – put their lives on the line, walking the streets late at night in the hope the at...
From two leading, agenda-setting feminist editors, Believe Me brings readers into the current landscape of the anti-sexual violence movement--and outlines how believing women is the critical foundation for future progress. Essays include Jessica Valenti writing about how a woman's word has never been enough in our country, giving context to the question of why we don't believe women. Jaclyn Friedman draws that idea out further, articulating why it matters that women are believed about sexual vio...