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I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sex Abuse is a 1983 book edited by Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton and marked Bass's first published non-fiction work. [1] It was published by Harper and Row and contains a collection of numerous child sexual abuse testimonials from a wide range of original source material including book ...
Carter calls discrimination and abuse of women and girls "the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge" of our time, and the book covers a wide range of problems including infanticide and selective abortion of female fetuses; female genital mutilation; rape, especially as a weapon of war; human trafficking of women and girls for sex; child marriage; honor killings; domestic violence ...
Hedda Nussbaum (born August 8, 1942) is an American woman who was a caregiver of a six-year-old girl who died of physical abuse in 1987. The death of the girl, Lisa Steinberg, sparked a controversial trial and media frenzy. The legal case was one of the first to be televised "gavel to gavel."
She is co-author of the book “FRAMED: Women in the Family Court Underworld” with Dr. Christine M. Cocchiola that contains the cautionary tales of 22 domestic abuse victims who have faced ...
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (first published in 1988, with three subsequent editions, the last being a 20th anniversary edition in 2008) is a self-help book by poet Ellen Bass and Laura Davis that focuses on recovery from child sexual abuse and has been called "controversial and polarizing".
Dorothy Earlene Allison (April 11, 1949 – November 6, 2024) was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. [1]
The national domestic abuse helpline offers support for women on 0808 2000 247, or you can visit the Refuge website. There is a dedicated men’s advice line on 0808 8010 327 There is a dedicated ...
In her study Comparative Study of Battered Women And Violence-Prone Women, [30] (co-researched with John Gayford of Warlingham Hospital), Pizzey distinguished between "genuine battered women" [30] and "violence-prone women"; [30] the former defined as "the unwilling and innocent victim of his or her partner's violence" [30] and the latter ...