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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 25 books in this booklist
£0.00 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529395006 | ISBN 10: 1529395003
‘A magnificent and inspiring contribution with profound implications’ Bessel van der Kolk MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score ‘Celebrates survivors’ wisdom and their power to heal themselves and the world we live in’ Anita Hill& ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529371819 | ISBN 10: 1529371813
“It became untenable for me to remain silent about a part of my life I had long kept secret. I had to follow the persistent, uncomfortable pull of truth, wherever it would lead me.” From the outside looking in, the young life of Mia Dör ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241428290 | ISBN 10: 0241428297
Chanel Miller's story changed our world forever. In 2016 Brock Turner was sentenced to just six months in jail after he was caught sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. His light sentencing, and Chanel's victim impact statement, which was rea ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781635574388 | ISBN 10: 1635574382
"One of the most shatteringly brilliant books I have read. As soon as I finished it, I read it again, and again, and again"( Decca Aitkenhead, Sunday Times) Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. S ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912157105 | ISBN 10: 1912157101
Before #MeToo, there was silence. Let’s talk about that silence. The Anatomy of Silence is an anthology of 26 voices speaking out loud - often for the first time - about what it means to stay silent, to be silenced, and to ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617136 | ISBN 10: 1911617133
A woman, a man, a rape, and a hard journey from violence to reconciliation. One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do an extraordinary thing: fly seven thousand miles ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780999079645 | ISBN 10: 0999079646
Sudden Denouement Publishing is honored to publish Rachel Finch’s book of poetry A Sparrow Stirs Its Wings. Finch is the powerhouse behind the Bruised But Not Broken community on Facebook, which provides support and healing for trauma survivors. Sh ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781633536197 | ISBN 10: 163353619x
Creating books that will change your life. Healing victims of sexual assault through transformative journaling: One in six women is the victim of sexual assault. Using her own hard-won wisdom, author Jen Cross shows how to heal through journalin ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849352468 | ISBN 10: 1849352461
Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent. Building ethical relationships is one of the most important things we can do, but sex, consent, abuse, and support can get complicated. ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781910318003 | ISBN 10: 1910318000
The Courage to Be Me is an illustrated story about courage, self-compassion and hope after rape or sexual abuse. Join a group of women as they share their stories, learn about recovery, and find the courage to be themselves. The book combines sc ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781583229262 | ISBN 10: 1583229264
With trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio explores the impacts of passive violence, abuse, war, and cultural trauma on our most intimate lives in order to uncover a path toward healthy and imaginative sex and love. Rose break ... more
View book details£22.50 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843109624 | ISBN 10: 184310962x
Victims of sexual and physical trauma can feel lost and disconnected from themselves and others. Christiane Sanderson's new book explains how counsellors can restore connection to self and others, and facilitate recovery within a safe and supportive ... more
View book details£19.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905541270 | ISBN 10: 1905541279
Rape Crisis centres have provided the most effective and valued source of support for survivors of rape in Britain ever since the centres were developed as part of the womens movement of the 1970s. Yet now, at the same time as Britain is failing sur ... more
View book details£27.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781573442930 | ISBN 10: 1573442933
Healing Sex is the encouraging, sex-positive guide for all women survivors of sexual assault heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, coupled, and single who want to delight in their own sexuality. While most books on the topic broach sexuality to reassure ... more
View book details£30.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781843103356 | ISBN 10: 1843103354
The completely revised and expanded third edition of this well-established text provides comprehensive coverage of the theory and practice of counselling survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA). Additional new material examines how trauma models expla ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780330418362 | ISBN 10: 033041836x
In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped ad beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of ... more
View book details£30.00 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781889322544 | ISBN 10: 1889322547
Coercing or conning a teen into sexual activity - it's called emotional grooming and it happens far too often to boys as well as girls. Using tactics like jealousy intimidation and flattery the emotional groomer manipulates his or her target into a s ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780091884208 | ISBN 10: 0091884209
Hope, encouragement and practical advice for any woman who was sexually abused as a child. The authors answer vital questions such as: how do I know if I was a victim of child abuse? where does the decision to heal start? how can I break the silence ... more
View book details£56.00 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780761921295 | ISBN 10: 076192129x
Can survivors of severe childhood trauma reclaim their lives as adults? Social psychologist Catherine Cameron addresses this question in a unique 12-year study of adult survivors of sexual abuse. Five successive surveys combine the richness of ... more
View book details£29.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781853028229 | ISBN 10: 1853028223
What happens to the survivors of child sexual abuse in its aftermath? How do parents and teachers engage with children who have suffered abuse? Based on a qualitative study exploring the effects of child sexual abuse on children, their mothers and th ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780863584305 | ISBN 10: 0863584306
This is a book about restoring connections: between the public and private worlds, between the individual and the community, between men and women. In this landmark study of trauma, now with a new afterword, Judith Lewis Herman, psychiatrist ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780285650893 | ISBN 10: 0285650890
Amid the recent welcome campaign to help child victims of sexual abuse, one group of victims has remained largely untapped: the many thousands of adults who have grown up emotionally crippled by the huge burden of guilt and self-disgust that is the l ... more
View book details£3.50 paperback (1991) - ISBN 13: 9781872767802 | ISBN 10: 187276780x
Women develop and live their sexuality through an interrelated range of pressures; personal, social, physical. Prevailing models of female sexuality leave them little opportunity for constructing a positive, active sexual identity or for exploring th ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (1988) - ISBN 13: 9780745604633 | ISBN 10: 0745604633
Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. Yet this fact continues to be almost wholly ignored. This new study, based on in-depth interviews with 60 women, is the first to ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (1984) - ISBN 13: 9780860685111 | ISBN 10: 086068511x
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, jo ... more
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