When MEN Batter WOMEN
Written with compassion and insight, When Men Batter Women offers invaluable advice and support to women in abusive relationships, as well as to friends, relatives, and caregivers who want to help. ISBN:9781416551331
What Kind of Girl
Told in multiple voices, when popular Mike Parker’s girlfriend informs North Bay Academy’s principal that he has been hitting her, students react differently, revealing their own. insecurities and problems. A compelling, story of hope and courage. ISBN:9780349003290
Now is Everything
Now Is Everything is a stirring debut novel by Amy Gilles, told in alternating Then and Now chapters, perfect for Sarah Dessen and Jennifer Niven fans, about what one girl with a dark famiy secret is willing to do to protect her past, present, and future. ISBN:9780062495761
Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence
This book examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence. ISBN:9780367234898
The Places I’ve Cried in Public
This book provides unflinchingly realistic and powerful deconstruction of a toxic teenage relationship, The Places I’ve Cried in Public is a disturbing portrait of a teenage girl and her descent into a coercive, controlling relationship. ISBN:9781474949521.
Stalking the Soul
In this groundbreaking account, Dr Marie France Hirigoyen lays bare the destructive hidden’ phenomenon of emotional abuse. She argues that while emotional abuse is not as visible as physical abuse, it is equally violent and perhaps even more widespread. ISBN:9781885586995
Violence Against Women – What Everyone Needs to Know
Violence against Women Act and a United Nations declaration to end sexual violence in war, to coverage of gang rapes in India, cyberstalking and “revenge porn”, honor killings, female genital mutilation, and international trafficking. Yet, while we frequently read or learn about particular experiences or incidents of VAWG, we are often unaware of the full…
Domestic Economic Abuse The Violence of Money
Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse. She describes the lived experience of coercive control underlying economic abuse across cultures. ISBN:ISBN 9781000456806.
In The Dream House
In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Machado recounts her real-life entanglement in an abusive same-sex relationship to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic. ISBN:9781788162258
Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives
Drawing on internviews, the author, Dr Emma Katz, sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs. ISBN:9780367615437
Coercive Control – How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence)
One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. ISBN:9780195384048
In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
World-renowned criminology Jane Monckton Smith’s groundbreaking work is revolutionising the understanding of coercive control and domestic homicide among those who respond to it. Monckton Smith shares a glimpse into a world of coercive control. ISBN:9781526613219
Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes. draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to helps us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
A Typology of Domestic Violence
Johnson explores the different types of intimate partner violence and if it can be defined as a “unitary phenomenon” or whether there are multiple forms of domestic violence. This volume begins the work of theorizing forms of domestic violence. ISBN:9781555536947
See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse. ISBN:9781787388260
Brutally Honest – The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl
Brutally Honest is an expose of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind Spice Girl, Melanie Brown’s glamour and success. The book reveals the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free. ISBN:9781787133525
Domestic Abuse, Homicide and Gender: Strategies for Policy and Practice
This book argues for a re-conceptualisation of the female victim to enhance safety management and encourage a deeper understanding of the emotional dynamics and social structures which perpetuate violence. ISBN:9781137307422
Coercive Control
This book offers a critical appreciation of the nature and impact of coercive control in interpersonal relationships. It examines what this concept means, who is impacted by the behaviours, and how academics, policymakers, and policy advocates have responded. ISBN:9780367894269
Living With The Dominator: A book about the Freedom programme
This book explains violent and abusive behaviour and places it in a social context. It can help readers of any age and sexual orientation to change their own behaviour and to recognise when they are being controlled. ISBN:9780955882708
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
The author, a counsellor who specialises in working with abusive men, describes ways to help women recognise when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship ISBN:9780425191651
Operation Lighthouse: Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide
On 19 July 2016, Claire and Charlotte Hart were murdered in broad daylight, by the family’s father. Luke and Ryan Hart, the two surviving sons, open up about their experiences growing up. ISBN:9781841883397
Remembered Forever: Our family’s devastating story of domestic abuse and murder
A shocking story about living under the terror of coercive control told by the family’s two surviving sons, Luke and Ryan Hart, which brings deeper understanding to the shocking crime of domestic abuse and homicide. ISBN:9781841883403
Light on the Horizon, A Community Response to Relationship Abuse
This book tells the story of how small acts of compassion ignited an enduring community response to relationship abuse. The Light on The Horizon charts the evolution of the charities Clare Haven Services and Haven Horizons. ISBN:9781739669409
Power and Control: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers
Sandra Horley CBE draws on almost four decades supporting abused women to provide an insight into the reality behind the mask of the charming man. The book’s aim is to show women they are not alone. ISBN:9781785041488
Next Time She’ll Be Dead: Battering & How to Stop it
This book on domestic violence includes information on the effect of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, examines resources on the Internet, and details what you can do to help stop battering. ISBN:9780807067895
Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Thinking Gender)
This study of women carers explores the significance of dependency work to show how both theory and policy fail women when they miss the centrality of dependency to questions of justice. ISBN:9780415904131
Responding To Domestic Violence: Emerging Challenges for Policy, Practice and Research in Europe
This book describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals share their findings. ISBN:9781785922619
When Dad Hurts Mum: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse
This book is written by a counsellor who reveals how abusers interact with and manipulate children and how mothers can help their children recover from the trauma of witnessing abuse. ISBN:9780425200315
Violence Against Women: Current theory and practice in domestic abuse, sexual violence and exploitation
This book seeks to address issues surrounding violence against women, from its root causes to the specific needs arising in victims of abuse from a particular social or ethnic group. ISBN:9781849051323
Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence – Lessons from Duluth and Beyond
This book examines how to develop a response to domestic violence using the Deluth Model, a widely disseminated approach to community-based intervention in domestic violence. ISBN:9780761911241