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      • Social issues & processes
        November 2020

        Vergewaltigung. Aspekte eines Verbrechens (Rape. Aspects of a Crime)

        Nautilus Flugschrift

        by Mithu M. Sanyal

        Why do we speak and think about rape in the way that we do? Cultural critic MithuSanyal has written the first comprehensive analysis of the crime that shapes society'sattitudes towards gender, race and vulnerability.What exactly is rape culture? Why do we expect victims to be irreparably damaged? Whyis it so hard to think of men as victims of rape?

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        Sick Boi

        Real illustrated stories about toxic masculinity

        by Carol Ito (editor and author) / Helô D'Angelo (editor and author) / Bebel Abreu (editor and lettering) / Bruna Maia (author) / Ale Kalko (author) / Tai (author) / Lila Cruz (author) / Marília Marz (author) / Bennê Oliveira (author) / Cecília Marins (author) / Vitorelo (author) / Luiza Lemos (author)

        This collection brings 11 real stories about toxic masculinity, sent by women and non-binary people, adapted to comics by 11 diverse artists. They are made to inspire laughter and reflection about sexist behaviors, especially in romantic relationships.

      • Ethical issues & debates
        September 2015

        Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth

        From Steubenville to Ched Evans

        by Gittos, Luke, A01

        This book argues that the belief in a 'rape culture' is seriously distorting our discussion of sexual violence.

      • Biography & True Stories
        March 2013

        The Clouds Still Hang

        The Complete Trilogy

        by Patrick C Notchtree

        A trilogy telling a story of love and loyalty, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy; charting one gay man's attempts to rise above the legacy of a traumatic childhood.The first book deals with Simon's childhood friendship and eventually love affair with an older boy and early sexualisation, the second the trauma of his teenage years and early adulthood, the third his struggle to maintain equilibrium and the disastrous consequences of his failure at one point to achieve that and his fight back to self acceptance.Based on the author's own life, it will strike a chord with many who have been through similar things, as well as those with an interest in such matters, either personal or professional, such as police and probation officers, those involved with the gay / LGBT community etc.It's a varied, exciting, demanding, sometimes terrifying life story. Of adult nature in places, it contains some explicit sexual narrative, including sexual violence.

      • Fiction
        July 2013

        The Poisoned Banquet

        by ANTHONY JAMES

        A romantic thriller; A tales of an abused celebrity wife. A contemporary novel set in UK and USA. The novel is a study of morbid jealousy and follows the lives of the heroine Rachel a beorgening international pianist and her husbad the charming but morbidly jealous and corrupt banker Michael Johnson. The story opens with the death of Michael's baby sister - accident or infanticide? Michael determines to becaome the apple of his parents' eye and he grows up as an athletic, bright and charming but ruthlessyoung man. He falls for Rachel, wooes her but rather in the mold of Jeckyll and Hyde he becaomes morbidly jealous of rachel and her musical career. Rachel's unshakeable devotion tolerates the ever worsening excesses of Michael's obsessive jealousy into tawdry drug and sexual abuse. Rachel meets a geeky but brilliant young musician and is infatuated by his musical talent - her world is turned upside down. Is her love of music or her love of Michael the greater? What of both are taken away?

      • Memoirs
        January 2013

        Where the Rainbow Fell Down

        A raw and deeply moving memoir beginning in mid century New Zealand, Lynette Robinson battles to survive an upbringing profoundly impacted by poverty, family dysfunction and the Catholic Church.

        by Lynette Robinson

        WHERE THE RAINBOW FELL DOWN           Synopsis A memoir in two parts. The first half details the author’s life growing up in post-war New Zealand. Born into a dysfunctional NZ Catholic family with a disturbed mother, controlling father, and abusive step father, political and historical events help influence and shape her.  After leaving home to work at the age of 15, Robinson was coerced into marriage at 18 to a calculating, older man. She experiences years of marital unhappiness until she begins a career as a Marriage Guidance Counsellor, and finds unexpected love, joy and escape with a Catholic Priest.  During the second half of the story the priest’s tale unfolds. Brian is the only child of an introverted mother preoccupied with concealing her deformity, and a passive father who ‘went with the flow.’ As a young naïve man he was easily coerced into the priesthood and spent years of training in the Seminary where young men were conditioned and shaped for their role, their sexual natures suppressed, attitudes to women distorted, and their loyalty to the Church made absolute. Brian questioned all of this but continued. He then forms a relationship that challenges his Catholic conditioning and he determines to leave the priesthood. His struggle to escape the Church and the pressures placed on him to remain, test this relationship fully, but both remain firm.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2020

        Resilience Is Futile

        The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde

        by Julie S. Lalonde

        A memoir of terror. An indictment of a misogynistic system that silences survivors For over a decade Julie Lalonde kept a secret. As an award-winning advocate for women’s rights, she criss-crossed the country, denouncing violence against women and giving hundreds of media interviews along the way. Her work made national headlines for challenging universities and taking on Canada’s top military brass. But while appearing fearless on the surface, Julie met every interview and event with the same fear in her gut: was he here? Fleeing intimate partner violence at age twenty, Julie was stalked by her ex-partner for over ten years, rarely mentioning it to friends, let alone addressing it publicly. The contrast between her public career as a brave champion for women with her own private life of violence and fear meant a shaky and exhausting balancing act. Resilience is Futile is a story of survival, courage, and ultimately, hope. But it is also a challenge to the ways we understand trauma and resilience. It is the story of one survivor who won’t give up and refuses to shut up.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        Say You Love Me

        by Marion Husband

        Ben Walker sets out to trace his father and discover the truth about his adoption in 1968. But the past holds secrets that his brother Mark is desperate to keep. Old hatreds between the brothers are rekindled and their adopted father is made to face his own guilt over the events of that spring of 1968. Say You Love Me explores how Mark took on the responsibility of the events in his childhood and how that feeling of responsibility stayed with him with disastrous results.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2021

        Fired Up about Consent

        by Sarah Ratchford

        Fired Up about Consent is a practical, survivor-informed primer for young people who want to learn how to build joyful, mutually satisfying sex lives and relationships. Sarah Ratchford defines rape and sexual assault, busts the myths behind toothless messaging and outdated advice, and provides sex-positive scripts on how to ask for and offer a clear, enthusiastic, and freely given “Yes!” Along the way, Ratchford touches on topics such as #MeToo, gender identity, masturbation, virginity, porn, sex work, reporting assault, and more, all through a radically inclusive and intersectional lens. The message is loud and clear: not only is consent sexy, it’s mandatory—and everyone deserves frank and empowering literacy around it. Only with empathy, compassion, and resistance can we move forward into a new culture of consent.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2022

        Mujer azul (Blue woman)

        by Antje Rávik Strubel

        Adina is the last teenager in the Giant Mountains. When she leaves her small village for the first time - to take a language course in Berlin - she meets Rickie, a photographer who arranges an internship for her at a newly built cultural center in Uckermark. Adina is assaulted by a respected cultural politician from West Germany, and after an odyssey through half of Europe, she ends up stranded in Helsinki. There she meets Leonides, an Estonian political scientist and Member of the European Parliament, who becomes her first stop. While he campaigns for human rights, Adina seeks a way out of her inner exile. These are the circumstances.

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