In this provocative presentation, Anne Munch, a career prosecutor and advocate for victims of gender violence, examines how cultural attitudes shape the outcomes of rape and sexual assault cases. Drawing on years of experience prosecuting sex crimes, Munch shows how rape cases often turn on the involvement of an "unnamed conspirator" -- the complex of myths and stories we tell ourselves as a culture about sex, gender, power, and responsibility. Using...

The MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender violence prevention models that actually work. The Bystander Moment tells the story of one of the most prominent and proven of these models - the innovative bystander approach developed by pioneering scholar and activist Jackson Katz and his colleagues at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport...

"AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn...

Determined not to play by anyone else's rules, a Seattle sex-crimes detective, a "natural causes" killer and an ex-Mossad honey-trap killer fight to get their hands on a tape implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security statein human trafficking.

A teacher tells the children in her class to talk to an adult if they are being sexually abused.

Kendra's first novel was a huge success, but now she's on a deadline and cannot write a thing. Her attention is consumed with a letter from an anonymous reader, who seems to know exactly how much Kendra's novel was based on past summers in Hidden Lake, MN. Cami Rainier was adopted from Korea by a famous novelist, and she and Kendra spent many magical summers imagining on the lake, until Cami's parents adopted a teenager named Tyler with a troubled...

"Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes...

In Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Cambodia, sexual tourism has become a booming industry. Men, women, and children prostitute themselves to survive in an economically ravaged country. A mostly Western male and female clientele, aficionados of exotic sex and even pedophiles use and abuse their financial superiority to satisy their basest desires.--Kanopy.

"It's hard to overstate the importance of this gorgeous, harrowing, heartbreaking book, which tackles sexual violence and its aftermath while also articulating the singular pain of knowing -- or loving, or caring for, or having a history with -- one's rapist. Vanasco is whip-smart and tender, open and ruthless; she is the perfect guide through the minefield of her trauma, and ours"--Carmen Maria Machado in Bustle.