or A Non-Adversarial Approach to Sexual Harassment
Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment primarily as a legal issue? This text questions the assumption that women are passive victims and instead explores strategies for providing a balanced workplace and applies these strategies to a variety of workplaces.
Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination
Focuses on the cultural lenses through which young women interpret their sexual encounters and their experiences of male aggression in heterosexual relationships. This book explores how young women make sense of, resist, and negotiate conflicting cultural messages about sexual agency, responsibility, aggression, and desire.
Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination
Based on detailed individual and collective interviews with a diverse sample of college-aged American women, this is an exploration of how young women make sense of, resist and negotiate conflicting cultural messages about sexual agency, responsibility, aggression and desire.
It examines all of the dimensions associated with this terrible occurrence: legal, ethical, administrative, educational, and rehabilitative. It provides thorough, candid coverage crucial for psychiatrists and other medical professionals, social workers, lawyers, medical board administrators, and residents in ethics and forensics seminars.
A study of how rape stereotypes are used by defence lawyers to gain acquittals in the USA. The author also presents reform proposals, consistent with feminist theories of justice, designed to improve both the American adversary system in general and the way in which the system handles rape cases.
A study of the sexual abuse of children which takes readers into the subjective world of child molesters to examine why men assault and terrorize children who love and trust them.
Is repressed memory fact or fiction? What role should therapists play in determining the truth? Here, doctors, therapists, victims, researchers, and others search for answers in seven major areas: memory and its recovery, childhood trauma, repression and amnesia, hypnosis, suggestibility, professional problems and ethical issues.
Experts in the field offer balanced, carefully considered advice on approaches therapists can use when patients report they have experienced ritual abuse. These qualified clinicians explain and demonstrate their techniques and offer caveats against accepting a patient's recollections at face value.
Explores why men molest children, based on in-depth interviews with 30 men who molested their own children or children of someone they knew. Discusses the men's lives before their offenses, how their initial interest in sex with children began, tactics offenders employed, how they felt about their