Rape: A Love Story

Rape: A Love Story
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1782395253

'Rape: A Love Story gives us Oates at her darkly enthralling best.' -- Andrew Ervin, New York Times Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys running loose on hormones, rage and alcohol. A victim of gang rape, left for dead in the park boathouse, the once vivacious Teena can now only regret that she has survived. At a relentlessly compelling pace punctuated by lonely cries in the night and the whisper of terror in the afternoon, Joyce Carol Oates unfolds the story of Teena and Bethie, their assailants, and their unexpected, silent champion, a man who knows the meaning of justice. And love.

Love and Other Words

Love and Other Words
Author: Christina Lauren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501128027

After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s touching, romantic novel Love and Other Words…how many words will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong? The story of the heart can never be unwritten. Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her. Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.

I'm the Girl Who Was Raped

I'm the Girl Who Was Raped
Author: Michelle Hattingh
Publisher: Inanna Memoir Series
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Rape
ISBN: 9781771334457

That morning, Michelle presented her Psychology honours thesis on rape. It began: "A woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read..." That evening, celebrating her degree, she and a friend go to the beach, where they are both robbed, assaulted and raped. Within minutes of getting help, Michelle realizes she'll never be herself again. She is now "the girl who was raped." This book is Michelle's fight to be herself again. Of the taint she feels, despite the support and resources at her disposal as the chilld of a succcessful middle-class family. Of the fall-out to friendships, job, identity. It's Michelle's brave way of standing up for the many women in South Africa, and around the world, who are raped every day.

Love WITH Accountability

Love WITH Accountability
Author: Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1849353530

Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape, Aishah Shahidah Simmons invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal justice system. Love WITH Accountability features compelling writings by child sexual abuse survivors, advocates, and Simmons’s mother, who underscores the detrimental impact of parents/caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. This collection explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse, humanely.

Rape, Love, and Sexuality

Rape, Love, and Sexuality
Author: Sylvia Estrada-Claudio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2002
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Estrada-Claudio fuses feminist scholarship with Filipino psychology in this important contribution to the study and understanding of sexuality. She discusses sexual practices within a framework that recognizes gender and class power relations in Philippine society.

A Romantic Rape of Nanking

A Romantic Rape of Nanking
Author: Jennifer Suzuki
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2017-06-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781547205745

What is the purpose of war? Man in his pacifist rage has forsaken all of war's glory and magnified beyond reason all its cruelty. War enhanced the existence of the superior type of man and man in victory enjoyed the complete domination and monopoly of all the pleasures in conquered females. War for all its vilifications continues in its instinct the preservation of the human species by eliminating the weak, the sick, the degenerate, the unfit. Is war evil? Necessary is the evil.

Rape-Revenge Films

Rape-Revenge Films
Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-03-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476686491

Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a phenomenon that--revitalized since #MeToo exploded in late 2017--is a filmmaking tradition with a history that transcends a contemporary context. Featuring both famous and unknown movies, controversial and widely celebrated filmmakers, as well as rape-revenge cinema from around the world, this revised edition demonstrates that diverse and often contradictory treatments of sexual violence exist simultaneously.

Dating After Trauma

Dating After Trauma
Author: Emily Avagliano
Publisher: Emily Avagliano
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2013-04-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0615850065

Dating After Trauma teaches readers how to date again after being raped or experiencing an abusive relationship. Dating after rape, date rape, or an abusive relationship presents unique challenges as most survivors experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which alters their perception of the world and makes it more difficult to develop relationships, build trust and experience intimacy. It takes tremendous courage to date after suffering an abusive relationship or sexual trauma. It can be even more difficult to be open to love from a good person without experiencing fear. However, once you know what to look for in terms of roadblocks, the path to love becomes much easier. In "Dating after Trauma" Emily Avagliano discusses the common obstacles abuse victims have when trying to find love. Her story is based on her own personal struggle to overcome past trauma and find her soulmate. Through this insight, she provides a methodology for dating that builds trust and intimacy in a safe and healthy way. She can help you let go of your fear and date in a manner that love becomes possible. For rape victims, if you have experienced date rape or sexual abuse, and want to reclaim your sexuality, find your soul mate, or just start feeling again, this book guides you through that process of healing. If someone you love has been raped, you see them suffering, and don't know how to help them move on from the past, this book will help. If you are a mother, father, friend, boyfriend or dating partner, this book explains what rape victims feel and why it is so hard for them to trust and love someone new. This book also tackles the pain of abusive relationships. If you have experienced the roller coaster of an abusive partner where some days he is the best person in the world and other days you can't understand his anger, this book will help you heal. If you have altered your behavior to try to control your partner's anger, jealousy, or even violent physical outburst, this book is for you. If your partner used name calling, controlling behavior, restricted your clothing choices, verbally intimidated you, or made you feel less than, read this book. If you are a parent, partner, or want to help someone in an abusive relationship but don't know how, this book provides insight into ending the cycle of dating abusive partners. Thank you for your feedback. I greatly appreciate a book review on amazon below.

It's Possible It Happened to Me

It's Possible It Happened to Me
Author: Libby Sanchez
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2011-06-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1456879634

After sixty-six years of marriage Libby found herself feeling lonely and without purpose after her husband, Ernest died. She began to write short stories as a way to remember the full life she had experienced. She began to share her stories while taking a writing class. Everyone seemed to enjoy her stories as they were inspiring, cheerful, and genuine. She was encouraged by her instructor, Chuck, to consider writing a book. These are some of her stories of her experiences as a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. As an only child she always had a dream of having a large family, and as the title implies, Its possible, It Happened to Me. She is hopeful that her stories will show how life is all about attitude, and faith. This is not only her legacy to her family, but to all who strive each day to find purpose.

The Way I Used to Be

The Way I Used to Be
Author: Amber Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2022-12-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0861546741

THE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT 'After finishing this book, my heart was pounding and I couldn’t find words big enough to describe how brilliant, beautiful, and powerful it is.' L.E. Flynn, author of All Eyes On Her All Eden wants is to rewind the clock. To live that day again. She would do everything differently. Not laugh at his jokes or ignore the way he was looking at her that night. And she would definitely lock her bedroom door. But Eden can’t turn back time. So she buries the truth, along with the girl she used to be. She pretends she doesn’t need friends, doesn’t need love, doesn’t need justice. But as her world unravels, one thing becomes clear: the only person who can save Eden … is Eden.