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Surviving Rape, Sexual Violence & Abuse - Books by and for survivors - and people working with survivors.

Related categories: Feminism & Women / Health & Wellbeing / Violence & Abuse /
Related booklists: Domestic Violence - Surviving & Getting Out, Rape & Sexual Violence, Men Surviving Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse & Protection, Trauma, Child Abuse: Survivors' Stories, Working with Refugees & Asylum Seekers, Child Abuse: Help & Self-Help For Adult Survivors,

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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

  • Cover image of book Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith L. Herman
    Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice - by Judith L. Herman

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery by Mia Doering
    Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery - by Mia Doering

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story by Chanel Miller
    Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story - by Chanel Miller

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Apology by Eve Ensler
    The Apology - by Eve Ensler

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Anatomy of Silence by Cyra Perry Dougherty (Editor)
    The Anatomy of Silence - by Cyra Perry Dougherty (Editor)

    £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

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  • Cover image of book South of Forgiveness by Thordis Elva
    South of Forgiveness - by Thordis Elva

    £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

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  • Cover image of book A Sparrow Stirs Its Wings by Rachel Finch
    A Sparrow Stirs Its Wings - by Rachel Finch

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Writing Ourselves Whole by Jen Cross
    Writing Ourselves Whole - by Jen Cross

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support by Cindy Crabb
    Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support - by Cindy Crabb

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Courage to Be Me: A Story of Courage, Hope and Self-Compassion After Rape or Sexual Abuse by Nina Burrowes
    The Courage to Be Me: A Story of Courage, Hope and Self-Compassion After Rape or Sexual Abuse - by Nina Burrowes

    £12.00   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 combine ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rose: Love in Violent Times by Inga Muscio
    Rose: Love in Violent Times - by Inga Muscio

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma by Christine Sanderson
    Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma - by Christine Sanderson

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Rape Crisis: Responding to Sexual Violence by Helen Jones and Kate Cook
    Rape Crisis: Responding to Sexual Violence - by Helen Jones and Kate Cook

    £18.95   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

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  • Cover image of book Healing Sex: A Mind-body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma by Staci Haines
    Healing Sex: A Mind-body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma - by Staci Haines

    £19.99   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

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  • Cover image of book Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Christiane Sanderson
    Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse - by Christiane Sanderson

    £27.99   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

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  • Cover image of book Lucky by Alice Sebold
    Lucky - by Alice Sebold

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Unmasking Sexual Con Games: Helping Teens Identify Good & Bad Relationships (Leader
    Unmasking Sexual Con Games: Helping Teens Identify Good & Bad Relationships (Leader's Guide) - by Kathleen M McGee & Laura H Buddenberg

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Survivors by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
    The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Survivors - by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Resolving Childhood Trauma: A Long-term Study of Abuse Survivors by Catherine Cameron
    Resolving Childhood Trauma: A Long-term Study of Abuse Survivors - by Catherine Cameron

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Coping with Survivors and Surviving by Julie Skinner
    Coping with Survivors and Surviving - by Julie Skinner

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Trauma and Recovery: From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman
    Trauma and Recovery: From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - by Judith Lewis Herman

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Rescuing the "Inner Child" Therapy for Adults Sexually Abused as Children by Penny Parks
    Rescuing the "Inner Child" Therapy for Adults Sexually Abused as Children - by Penny Parks

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Pressured Pleasure: Young Women and the Negotiation of Sexual Boundaries by Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglou et al
    Pressured Pleasure: Young Women and the Negotiation of Sexual Boundaries - by Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglou et al

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Surviving Sexual Violence by Liz Kelly
    Surviving Sexual Violence - by Liz Kelly

    £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

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  • Cover image of book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - by Maya Angelou

    £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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