abused women

Discusses violence against women including domestic violence and rape, as well as the American culture of sex and violence, getting help for victims, and ideas for prevention.

This book explores the nature and scope of violence against women as well as possible solutions to this long-standing problem.

Presents opposing viewpoints involving the issues surrounding violence against women, providing an overview of global violence and solutions to control sexual offenders.

Discusses abusive relationships with the women who have lived through them and how they have responded to it.

Eighth-grader Amalia is excited when she and James, an eleventh-grader, start to get serious, but when he gets jealous whenever she talks to other guys and tells her he'll die without her, she gets scared.

Tashi, an African woman married to an African-American missionary, struggles to deal with the psychological effects of the brutal circumcision she underwent in adolescence, which causes her son brain damage in birth and results in her facing a murder charge.

Eleven-year-old Indigo, her mother, and her toddler sister have to move out of their apartment because of troubles with Mum's boyfriend, while Indie is also having best friend problems at school, leaving her stressed, confused, and lonely.

Eleven-year-old Indigo, her mother, and her toddler sister have to move out of their apartment because of troubles with Mum's boyfriend, while Indie is also having best friend problems at school, leaving her stressed, confused, and lonely.

Twelve-year-old Hershey must deal with a new set of problems after her mother, escaping from her abusive boyfriend, takes the family to live across town in a women's shelter, and Hershey's journals and Cheez Doodles are her only constants.

Leslie Morgan Steiner relates her experiences being married to a man who physically abused her and describes her struggle to leave him and heal.