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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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“A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. By placing the individual...
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. By placing the individual...
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United States. White House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the importance of reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act - the Administration's ongoing coordination across the federal government to combat violence against women - as well as new steps the Administration is taking to reduce domestic violence and sexual assault.
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"Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the conversation by analyzing the socially interventionist work of Indigenous women poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers. Organized as a series of case studies that pair literary interventions with recent sites...
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English
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Featuring in-depth interviews, personal accounts, and trial analysis, this gripping account of the 2017 murder of twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind brings to light the overwhelming sexual and physical violence against Native American women and girls in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction.
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EPIC proportions volume report no. 11
Publisher
The Branch
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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English
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In Destructive Violence Against Men, author Adedeji Adesanya writes candidly about his dramatic ten-year battle against demonic forces dispatched through witchcraft to ruin his life. He details the insight he gained from the Word of God and power of the Holy Spirit that enabled him to expose and ultimately thwart the enemy's attacks.
This blow-by-blow manual on personal spiritual warfare will show you how to:
· Draw close to God
· Live in the...
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Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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This book examines the history of violence against the LGBTQ community. In the 1990s the brutal murder of a gay man, Matthew Shepard, brought attention to the violence, and lawmakers and prosecutors have stepped up efforts to bring perpetrators to justice. Nevertheless, violence against the LGBTQ community continues to persist.
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English
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Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has increasingly come to the forefront of international and national policy debates and news. Yet, while we frequently read or learn about particular experiences or incidents of VAWG, we are often unaware of the full picture.
Jacqui True provides an expansive frame for understanding VAWG in this book. Among the questions she addresses include: What are we talking about when we...
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English
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Women are the worst victims of violence as they are subjected to both general and gender based crimes. Gender based crimes are characterized as "Crime against women". Crimes against women, despite of legal and institutional measures are in constant rise and has become a major cause of concern. The insensitive act of crime against women manifests in various forms such as rape, sexual harassment, acid attack, domestic violence, female foeticide and...
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With a new preface by the author
The Pulitzer Prize finalist's powerful examination of the hidden stories of workers overlooked by #MeToo
Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official...
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English
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THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King
Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive….
In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club—a group of survivors the press dubbed “The Final Girls”: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters...
“If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King
Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive….
In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club—a group of survivors the press dubbed “The Final Girls”: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters...
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English
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There is an epidemic of violence against women in Canada and the world. For many women physical and sexual assault, or the threat of such violence, is a daily reality. Walk Myself Home is an anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and oral interviews on the subject of violence against women including contributions by Kate Braid, Yasuko Thahn and Susan Musgrave.
Walk Myself Home began as a small idea: to create a chapbook and sell it at the next...
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English
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The extent of violence against women is currently hidden. How should violence be measured? How should research and new ways of thinking about violence improve its measurement? Could improved measurement change policy? The book is a guide to how the measurement of violence can be best achieved. It shows how to make femicide, rape, domestic violence, and FGM visible in official statistics. It offers practical guidance on definitions, indicators and...
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English
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Gender, Violence, and Justice is a volume of collected essays by an expert in the field of violence against women and pastoral theology. It represents over three decades of research, advocacy, and pastoral theological reflection on the subject of sexual and domestic violence. Topics include intimate partner violence, sexual abuse and trauma, and clergy sexual misconduct; controversial theological issues such as forgiveness; and, as well, positive...
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