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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this provocative presentation, Anne Munch, a career prosecutor and advocate for victims of gender violence, examines how cultural attitudes shape the outcomes of rape and sexual assault cases. Drawing on years of experience prosecuting sex crimes, Munch shows how rape cases often turn on the involvement of an "unnamed conspirator" -- the complex of myths and stories we tell ourselves as a culture about sex, gender, power, and responsibility. Using...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those girls. In 2014, Prout was a freshman at St. Paul's School, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, when a senior boy sexually assaulted her as part of a ritualized game of conquest. She reported her assault to the police and testified against her attacker...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From ESPN journalists whose investigation garnered a Peabody Award, the full devastating story of former physician Larry Nassar's serial abuse of America's elite gymnasts and others, revealing the win-at-all-costs culture in youth athletics and higher education that enabled him"--
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An undeniably powerful account of one hundred experiences of sexism, harassment, discrimination and assault by Shirley Jackson Award Winner, Chavisa Woods. Here are Woods's personal stories of 100 times she suffered or was witness to a sexually charged experience--from gender-based discrimination in work places, to unsolicited groping from strangers in public, to sexual assault--beginning from the time she was five years old to the present. Laid...
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Series
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Combines personal narrative and reportage to confront cultural and emotional reverberations of gender and sexual violence in America by examining assault cases in the author's hometown of Ypsilanti, Michigan, sex offender registries, and historical events such as the nylon riots of the 1940s"--
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides--after fourteen years of silence--to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person. "It's the least I can do," he says. Jeannie details her friendship with Mark before and after...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him"--
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender violence prevention models that actually work. The Bystander Moment tells the story of one of the most prominent and proven of these models – the innovative bystander approach developed by pioneering scholar and activist Jackson Katz and his colleagues at Northeastern University’s Center for the Study...
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Kantor and Twohey share their thoughts from their early days writing their first stories to their time as award-winning investigative journalists, offering tips and advice along the way. In 2017 Kantor and Twohey began an investigation into the activities of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, which won them a Pulitzer Prize. They share their best practices with aspiring journalists-- or anyone devoted to uncovering the truth. -- adapted from jacket...
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