Books and Novels
General Sexual Assault
The NoWhere Girls
"Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story."
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By: Amy Reed
Nevertheless We Persisted
"A powerful collection of essays from actors, activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers, and teens, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, actress Alia Shawkat, actor Maulik Pancholy, poet Azure Antoinette, teen activist Gavin Grimm, and many, many more, each writing about a time in their youth when they were held back because of their race, gender, or sexual identity--but persisted."
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By: Amy Klobuchar
Luckiest Girl Alive
"As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she's this close to living the perfect life she's worked so hard to achieve."
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By: Jessica Knoll
Speak
"Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino. After accidentally busting an end of summer party due to an unnamed incident, Melinda is ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police."
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By: Laurie Halse Anderson
The Power
"The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman. Its central premise is women developing the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, thus leading them to become the dominant gender."
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By: Naomi Alderman
History of Violence
"History of Violence is an international bestselling French author Edouard Louis's autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath."
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By: Edouard Louis
An Untamed State
"An Untamed State is a novel of wealth in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story of a willful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places."
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By: Roxane Gay
Asking For It
"Split into two parts – before and after the assault – the novel focuses on the misfortunes of a fifth-year student, 18-year-old Emma O'Donovan, from the fictional Cork town of Ballinatoom. Beautiful Emma is a superficial and sharp-tongued teenager, whose core group of friends seem to either tolerate or dislike her."
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By: Louise O'Neill
What We Saw
"It's the story of a girl named Kate whose friend is assaulted by student-athletes at a party, and how Kate navigates small-town politics to find out what really happened. Aaron lives by the beach in Santa Monica with his two dogs, Charlie and Brahms."
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By: Aaron Hartzler
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
"Exit, Pursued by a Bear is a young adult novel for teenaged readers by E.K. Johnston about Hermione Winters, whose life is turned upside down when she is drugged and raped at cheer camp, getting pregnant from the assault."
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By: E.K. Johnston
All The Rage
"From the bestselling author of Sadie, Courtney Summers' All the Rage is a powerful novel about a teenage girl who stays strong and speaks up. 'The footsteps stop but the birds are still singing, singing about a girl who wakes up on a dirt road and doesn't know what happened to her the night before . . .'"
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By: Courtney Summers
Specific to Campus Sexual Assault
Campus Sexual Assault: College Women Respond
"Survivors of campus sexual assault share the stories of how they confronted and overcame the trauma of being attacked."
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By: Lauren J. Germain
The Courage to Heal Workbook
"In this groundbreaking companion to The Courage to Heal, Laura Davis offers an inspiring, in-depth workbook that speaks to all women and men healing from the effects of sexual abuse. The combination of checklists, writing and art Projects, open-ended questions and activities expertly guides the survivor through the healing process."
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By: Laura Davis
Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
"This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity members, Peggy Reeves Sanday reconstructs daily life in the fraternity, highlighting the role played by pornography, male bonding, and degrading, often grotesque, initiation and hazing rituals. In a substantial new introduction and afterword, Sanday updates the incidences of fraternity gang rape on college campuses today, highlighting such recent cases as that of Duke University and others in the headlines. Sanday also explores the nature of hazing at sororities on campus and how Greek life in general contributes to a culture which promotes the exploitation and sexual degradation of women on campus. More broadly, Sanday examines the nature of campus life today and the possibility of creating a rape-free campus culture."
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By: Peggy Reeves Sanday
Campus Rape Victims: How They See the Police
"James attempts to accurately measure crimes that occur on a college campus and whether students' perceptions of police influenced their decisions to report their victimization, specifically sexual assault victimization. Her study utilized a survey methodology to gather data which were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of the analyses indicated that victimization reporting and satisfaction with the police was impacted by gender. Results also showed that fear of victimization and perceptions of crime influence satisfaction with the police. There was also limited support found for the proposition that perceptions of the police influence likelihood to report victimization."
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By: Veronyka James
Alderman, Naomi. “The Power.” Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown and Company, 18 Feb. 2020, www.littlebrown.com/titles/naomi-alderman/the-power/9780316547611/.
“All the Rage by Courtney Summers.” Goodreads, Goodreads, 14 Apr. 2015, www.goodreads.com/book/show/21853636-all-the-rage.
BookBrowse. “Summary and Reviews of What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler.” BookBrowse.com, www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/10894/what-we-saw.
bookworm.30999, and Guardian children's books site teen reviewer. “All the Rage by Courtney Summers - Review.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 17 Mar. 2016, www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/mar/17/all-the-rage-courtney-summers-review.
Davis, Laura. “The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Laura Davis.” Goodreads, Goodreads, 28 Feb. 1990, www.goodreads.com/book/show/135408.The_Courage_to_Heal_Workbook.
Gay, Roxane. “An Untamed State.” Amazon, Corsair, 2015, www.amazon.com/Untamed-State-Roxane-Gay/dp/0802122515.
Gerstmann, Evan. “Campus Sexual Assault: Constitutional Rights and Fundamental Fairness.” Amazon, Cambridge University Press, 2019, www.amazon.com/Campus-Sexual-Assault-College-Respond/dp/142141905X.
​https://www.amazon.com/Campus-Rape-Victims-Scholarship-2015-10-13/dp/B01FKWVOW0
https://www.amazon.com/Fraternity-Gang-Rape-Brotherhood-2007-03-01/dp/B01K0SM7RA
https://www.amazon.com/History-Violence-Novel-%C3%89douard-Louis/dp/0374170592
Johnston, E. K. “Exit, Pursued by a Bear.” Amazon, W. Ross MacDonald School Resource Services Library, 2019, www.amazon.com/Exit-Pursued-Bear-K-Johnston/dp/1101994606.
Johnston, E.K. “Exit, Pursued by a Bear Summary.” SuperSummary, www.supersummary.com/exit-pursued-by-a-bear/summary/.
Knoll, Jessica. “Luckiest Girl Alive.” Bookdepository.com, SIMON & SCHUSTER, 12 May 2015, www.bookdepository.com/Luckiest-Girl-Alive-Jessica-Knoll/9781476789637.
Louis, Édouard. “History of Violence: A Novel.” a Book Review by Jonah Raskin: History of Violence: A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 18 June 2018, www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/violence.
“Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll.” Goodreads, Goodreads, 12 May 2015, www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609317-luckiest-girl-alive.
McHugh, Meadhbh, et al. “Asking for It.” Amazon, Nick Hern Books Limited, 2018, www.amazon.com/Asking-Louise-ONeill/dp/1681445379.
“Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage by Amy Klobuchar.” Goodreads, Goodreads, www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34465185-nevertheless-we-persisted.
“Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage.” Amazon, Alfred A. Knopf, 2018, www.amazon.com/Nevertheless-We-Persisted-Defiance-Strength/dp/1524771961.
“The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed.” Goodreads, Goodreads, 10 Oct. 2017, www.goodreads.com/book/show/28096541-the-nowhere-girls.
“The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed.” Goodreads, Goodreads, 10 Oct. 2017, www.goodreads.com/book/show/28096541-the-nowhere-girls.
“The Power (Alderman Novel).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 Mar. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_(Alderman_novel).
“Speak - by Laurie Halse Anderson (Hardcover).” Target, www.target.com/p/speak-by-laurie-halse-anderson-hardcover/-/A-79129157.
“Speak.” Book Summary, www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/s/speak/book-summary.
“An Untamed State.” Grove Atlantic, groveatlantic.com/book/an-untamed-state/.