Showing titles in Sexual Abuse & Harassment

Als sie mit 19 in ein Kloster eintrat, hoffte sie auf eine schöne Zukunft. Sie wurde Ordensschwester in einer jungen und charismatischen Gemeinschaft. Als sie diese Gemeinschaft 2011 wieder verließ, war sie depressiv, praktisch mittellos und hatte keine sozialen Kontakte mehr. Sie war...

What would happen if we believed women? A groundbreaking anthology offers a potent rallying cry and theory of changeHarvey Weinstein. Brett Kavanaugh. Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump. The most infamous abusers in modern American history are being outed as women speak up to publicly expose behavior...

A survivor of sexual violence advocates for ending harm rather than merely transferring it in this unapologetically frank and astonishingly optimistic memoir. In 2016, Marlee Liss was sexually assaulted. When she went to the police, she had no idea the three-year process would only serve to...

Sommeren i Oslo er kogende hed. Politiet nyder ikke varmen, tværtimod. Kriminalbetjent Hanne Wilhelmsen står med tolv uopklarede voldtægtssager, da endnu en bestialsk forbrydelse finder sted: et rum oversprøjtet med så meget blod, at der må være mere end ét menneske, der har mistet store...

FORTIDEN HAR INDHENTET DEM. DET HAR HAN OGSÅ ? Ti dage efter Douglas Remfry er blevet løsladt fra fængslet, bliver han fundet død på et lurvet hotelværelse; hænderne er bundet, og han har en hætte over hovedet. Han var dømt for voldtægt, og nu er han selv blevet voldtaget. Nogen har...

I Sønderborg er en dreng forsvundet sporløst under en tur i det lokale indkøbscenter, og politiet står på bar bund. Et uhyggeligt fund retter fokus mod en sag fra Florida, som FBI uden held har forsøgt at opklare gennem flere år. Specialagent Tara Dixon, der kæmper med eftervirkningerne...

Andrea Dworkin’s 1981 critique of pornography is an important and urgent document about how the culture consumes and manipulates images of women. Essential and discomfiting reading in a social media era, where women’s bodies are being commodified and displayed more than ever. Andrea...

Como duas jornalistas conquistaram a confiança de dezenas de mulheres, expuseram os casos de assédio de Harvey Weinstein e deram um dos maiores furos jornalísticos da década em uma reportagem que alçou o movimento #MeToo à escala global. Com narração de Paula Picarelli. Em 5 de outubro...

Thirty-three-year-old Megan has the life she’s always wanted: a loving husband, two beautiful children, a meaningful career as a church music director, and most recently, her dream home. Then, she’s confronted with the news that her former high school band director has been arrested for child sexual abuse. The police are asking for anyone with information about the teacher to come forward, and Megan has plenty. But choosing to help the police means facing her own past, and that won’t be easy since she doesn’t believe she was a victim of abuse.

Kadi har været udsat for incest, vold og mishandling. Hun flyttede hjemmefra, da hun blev 18 år, og der gik ikke længe, før hun blev diagnosticeret med borderline, PTSD og depression. Gennem årene førte Kadi dagbog, og hver eneste dag beskrev hun hændelser og tanker. Det er disse...

True strength lies in the courage to be yourself and speak your truth. When Kath Essing recalled the sexual abuse from her childhood, her life turned upside-down. The secret had been hidden for decades, even from herself. After 23 years of navigating her own mental health issues, Kath was ready to face her greatest challenge and disclose the experiences of her childhood sexual abuse to police.

A Comprehensive Guide to Overcoming Substance and Behavioral Addictions, Healing Sexual Abuse, Compulsive Overeating, and Thriving Beyond. Dr. Sprouse expands upon the Doctor's Opinion in the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book giving new insight and understanding of the three-fold nature of addiction. She unveils a unique Model of Addiction, meticulously explaining addiction physiology and the challenges in achieving and maintaining abstinence. The book encapsulates the author's profound medical knowledge and extensive 53-year experience with the 12-Step program.

Jenni er fra det andet Østerbro, langt fra spelt og snedkerkøkkener. Hun er født på antabus og opflasket med rejeost og discountcola, omgivet af fulde og dopede voksne. Kort efter sin mors selvmord er hun første gang udsat for jævnaldrende drenges overgreb. Hun er otte, og overgrebene...

WINNER OF THE DAVITT AWARD FOR NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE The explosive, behind-the-scenes account of the criminal trial of the century. I understand – and sympathise with – the feeling you might have that you already know...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An unforgettable story of an ordinary woman in astonishing circumstances who defies the odds. Timea Nagy was twenty years old when she answered a newspaper ad in Budapest, Hungary, calling for young women to work as babysitters and housekeepers in Canada. Hired by what seemed...

On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetrators, and the administrators who oversaw their cases, sociologist Nicole Bedera exposes the structures that predictably punish survivors who come forward in the service of protecting—or even rewarding—their perpetrators. She reveals that the system tasked with ending gender inequality on campus only intensifies it, upending survivors’ lives and threatening their degrees.

Feeling numb and scared and exhausted and angry, you're not alone. Sexual abuse is not something that any individual will ever “get over” in their lives. You are not alone.

The Catholic Church has long been featured in headlines regarding sexual abuse. Now, a Catholic priest gives the full inside scoop. Joseph Copperson, nonpracticing priest for an American Catholic parish, writes this memoir detailing decades of clerical abuse throughout the Catholic Church. Becoming ordained during the 1960s and the major cultural upheavals of the Vietnam war and the sexual revolution, Copperson’s experience winds from rigorous theological training in Europe to the ongoing, worldwide changes wrought by the Second Vatican Council.

In Because I Didn't Tell, author Suzanne Harmony offers a self-help autobiography detailing an account of the horrific events of her young adult life. These events fiercely unraveled her one-safe world into a dungeon of despair propelled by life-or-death threats and brain-washed promises of "not to tell". Her journey through hell, led by the devil himself, clearly demonstrates the destructive trail of deceit, including lying to herself, in her desperate attempt to save lives: her own, her unborn child's, and her family members'.

Author Kim O'Hara takes the listener through her eleven years of recovery and offers tools and tips to make different choices in living while looking at generational abuse, spirituality, inner child, taking back one's body, financial independence and romance.