Diary of a Rape Victim
Author | : Phillis Van Godwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-11 |
Genre | : Rape victims |
ISBN | : 9781585970537 |
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Author | : Phillis Van Godwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-11 |
Genre | : Rape victims |
ISBN | : 9781585970537 |
Author | : Wiola Rebecka |
Publisher | : Rape a History of Shame Project |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2021-08-13 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780578939339 |
Publicly speaking about sexual violence is a challenge. As humans, we tend to deny things that bring us discomfort. Especially talking about rape during conflict and war. People tend to struggle in finding ways to share the indescribable. Because the images and ideas associated with rape are so intense and disturbing, opportunities to create change and awareness through dialogue are a challenge at best. This cloak of silence, however, is what keeps rape and sexual violence alive and ominous. My ongoing work in the field as a therapist has brought me the opportunity to listen to war rape survivors' experiences. I have thus far heard over 200 accounts, which is a number steadily increasing. These brave women and girls allowed themselves to share with me something terrifying and previously unspeakable. Many have held on to their pain in silence, alone. They shared their humble beginnings, their ideals; and their stark realities during and following their rape, as well their aftermaths, and their healing. So many survivors have made the conscious choice of speaking out and being visible, even if they come from cultures that may be less than supportive to women who are the victims of sexual violence. Before I began work within the field of rape and sexual violence awareness, I was like many other people living in my own comfort bubble. Back then, I was insulated by my values. I pursued my ideas without a deeper understanding of the complexity of war rape survivors' physical, emotional and social experiences, as well as the complex trauma that they were struggling with. Working with war-rape survivors quickly popped my comfort bubble. I realized my own tendency to deny sources of discomfort. I started to confront myself with the overwhelming reality that war-rape survivors face every single day. Listening to survivors' experiences and working with them as they address their trauma confronted me with the realities that rape survivors face, that their healing process starts from within, mentally and physically, but must continue outward, repairing their bonds and trust within their families, communities, and cultural institutions as well.
Author | : Amy Herdy |
Publisher | : Amy Herdy |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0983180229 |
This groundbreaking tour de force presents the gripping, true account of one of America's most notorious serial rapists and the tough female journalist assigned to cover his case. Following an exhaustive manhunt and his capture in 2005, Brent Brents sent letters and his journal to Denver Post reporter Amy Herdy-with the condition that she alone tell his story. Here, then, in his raw and uncensored words, Brents reveals shocking details about his childhood abuse and the monstrous acts he later committed. Going way beyond just the facts, he gives us an unprecedented look inside the twisted mind of a sociopath. At the same time, Amy has a personal story to tell. Rocked to the core by Brents' disturbing case, she sets out to understand this ruthless criminal only to be confronted with her own troubled past. Ultimately, she must make a choice that will change her life forever.
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Release | : 2015 |
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ISBN | : 9780993529702 |
Author | : Patricia Weaver Francisco |
Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 2000-01-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780060930769 |
She invites the reader into her life and into the questions raised by a crime with no obvious solutions or easy answers. We see the dimensions of a human struggle often kept hidden from view. While there are an estimated twelve million rape survivors in the United States, rape is still unspeakable, left out of our personal and cultural conversation. In Telling, Francisco has found a language for the secret grief carried by men and women who have survived rape.
Author | : Bee Goldsmith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Would you report a date rape? What if the perpetrator was someone you knew? Someone you were dating? And someone you were in love with? Bee Goldsmith is a date rape survivor. Diary of a Date Rape is a fictional diary about the trauma and emotional complexities surrounding date rape. Bee has written this book to help men, women and young adults guard themselves against sexual abuse in dating relationships. Bee hopes Diary of a Date Rape will help other survivors feel less alone on the road to recovery.. Trigger warning: contains scenes of a sexual nature, sexual violence, drug references. 10% of profits from the book will be donated to charities that work with survivors of sexual violence.
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2018-11 |
Genre | : Adult child abuse victims |
ISBN | : 1408890429 |
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.
Author | : Elva Thordis |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1510730028 |
One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy of this milestone. After exchanging hundreds of searingly honest emails over eight years, Thordis and Tom decided it was time to speak face to face. Coming from opposite sides of the globe, they meet in the middle, in Cape Town, South Africa, a country that is no stranger to violence and the healing power of forgiveness. South of Forgiveness is an unprecedented collaboration between a survivor and a perpetrator, each equally committed to exploring the darkest moment of their lives. It is a true story about being bent but not broken, facing fear with courage, and finding hope even in the most wounded of places. Personable, accessible, and compelling, South of Forgiveness is an intense and refreshing look at a gendered violence, rape culture, personal responsibility, and the effect that patriarchal cultures have on both men and women.
Author | : Julie Macfarlane |
Publisher | : Between the Lines |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2020-09-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1771134763 |
It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud – the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she confronts her own silence and deeply rooted trauma to chart a remarkable course from sexual abuse victim to agent of change. Going Public merges the worlds of personal and professional, activism and scholarship. Drawing upon decades of legal training, Macfarlane decodes the well-worn methods used by church, school, and state to silence survivors, from first reporting to cross-examination to non-disclosure agreements. At the same time, she lays bare the isolation and exhaustion of going public in her own life, as she takes her abuser to court, challenges her colleagues, and weathers a defamation Lawsuit. The result is far more than a memoir. It’s a courageous and essential blueprint on how to go toe-to-toe with the powers behind institutional abuse and protectionism. At long last, Macfarlane’s experiences bring her to the most important realization of her life: that only she can stand in her own shoes, and only she can stand up and speak about what happened to her.
Author | : Beatrice Sparks |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2010-06-22 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 006201272X |
The editor of the classic GO ASK ALICE has compiled the poignant journals of a 14-year-old date-rape victim who contracted AIDS and died.