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Transcending Trauma

Transcending Trauma

Beth Reece

PAULIST PRESS INTERNATIONAL,U.S.
2024
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With its comprehensive and compassionate approach, Transcending Trauma is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to transform pain into a pathway for growth and empowerment. Written for survivors and caregivers alike, this book offers a roadmap for recovery, emphasizing the potential for personal growth and renewal following trauma.Beth Reece introduces readers to a holistic approach that integrates storytelling, community, hope, creativity, and faith. This process, though often arduous, is essential for making sense of the past and reclaiming one's voice. Reece emphasizes the role of community and outlines practical ways to foster hope, from physical well-being to spiritual enrichment. Creativity is presented as a crucial tool for envisioning new possibilities and solutions, enabling a shift from merely surviving to thriving. Through various forms of creative expression, individuals can reconnect with their innate potential and embrace change.Transcending Trauma also explores the profound impact of faith, whether religious or secular, in providing a deeper understanding of suffering and the human condition. This faith, coupled with the other tools, aids in the reconstruction of a shattered sense of self, leading to a more resilient and enriched life.Discover the transformative power of healing in this compelling guide designed to help individuals navigate the aftermath of life's most challenging events.Beth Reece is a trained spiritual director and certified chaplain, having earned her MDiv from the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago. Her personal experience with trauma and subsequent healing motivated her to help patients achieve similar emotional and spiritual recovery.†
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A Communion of Friendship

A Communion of Friendship

Beth Daniell

Southern Illinois University Press
2003
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Drawing on interviews and an array of scholarly work, Beth Daniell maps out the relations of literacy and spirituality in A Communion of Friendship: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in Recovery. Daniell tells the story of a group of women in ""Mountain City"" who use reading and writing in their search for spiritual growth. Diverse in socioeconomic status, the Mountain City women are, or have been, married to alcoholics. In Al-Anon, they use literacy to practice the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous in order to find spiritual solutions to their problems. In addition, Daniell demonstrates that in the lives of these women, reading, writing, and speaking are intertwined, embedded in one another in rich and complex ways. For the women, private literate practice is of the utmost importance because it aids the development and empowerment of the self. These women engage in literate practices in order to grow spiritually and emotionally, to live more self-aware lives, to attain personal power, to find or make meaning for themselves, and to create community. By looking at the changes in the women's reading, Daniell shows that Al-Anon doctrine, particularly its oral instruction, serves as an interpretive tool. This discussion points out the subtle but profound transformations in these women's lives in order to call for an inclusive notion of politics. Foregrounding the women's voices, A Communion of Friendship addresses a number of issues important in composition studies and reading instruction. This study examines the meaning of literacy within one specific community, with implications both for pedagogy and for empirical research in composition inside and outside the academy.
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The Jacksonian

The Jacksonian

Beth Henley

Northwestern University Press
2014
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In The Jacksonian, Beth Henley returns to the Southern Gothic storytelling that made her reputation with both critics and audiences. Set in a seedy motel in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, the play centers around Rosy, a troubled teenager, and Bill, her dentist father who has been living at the motel for several months as his wife, Susan, considers the disgrace of divorce. Fred, the motel bartender, and Eva, a waitress, are locked in a gruesome pact: he'll marry her if she agrees to help him evade punishment for a hideous crime. But Bill, turning to nitrous oxide to ease the pain of his life collapsing around him, is a convenient target for Eva's desperate desire for companionship. At the height of the violence associated with the civil rights movement, these characters gradually reveal the shameful secrets and psychological turmoil just beneath the surface of their insistent Southern gentility.
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Around the World with Historical Fiction and Folktales

Around the World with Historical Fiction and Folktales

Beth Bartleson Zarian

Scarecrow Press
2004
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As more school districts undergo the painstaking task of curriculum integration, resources that offer children an opportunity to live vicariously in times and places they cannot experience any other way become increasingly necessary. Whether two teachers are covering the same topic in separate classes (e.g. English and history), or designing a thematic unit with the school librarian, this book will assist all parties in the selection of high quality literature. In this handy guide to nearly 800 award winning historical fiction for Kindergarten through 8th grade, Beth Zarian literally spans the globe. Entries are first divided into three sections - American history, world history, and myths and folklore - then chronologically from prehistoric times to present day, and finally by grade level. Each entry is accompanied by a short annotation. For anyone wishing to teach historical facts in an entertaining way, Around the World with Historical Fiction and Folktales is the only way to travel.
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Learning Curves

Learning Curves

Beth Younger

Scarecrow Press
2009
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Adolescence is a time of growth, change, and confusion for young women. During this transition from childhood to adulthood, sex and gender roles become more important. Meanwhile, depictions of females—from the hyper-sexualized girls of music videos to the chaste repression of Purity Balls—send mixed messages to young women about their bodies and their sexuality. Over the last several decades, authors of young adult novels have been challenged to reflect this concern in their work and have responded with varying degrees of success. In Learning Curves: Body Image and Female Sexuality in Young Adult Literature, Beth Younger examines how cultural assumptions and social constraints are reinforced and complicated through common representations of young women. Each chapter analyzes a recurrent theme in the history of young adult literature, including issues of body image, pregnancy, abortion, lesbianism, and romance. By examining selected novels for their sexual content, situating them within their social and historical context, and analyzing their discursive qualities, the author reveals the multitude of complex ways that society depicts teenagers and their sexualities and offers a critique of patriarchal culture that gives value to the female experience.
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Blue Ribbon Dad

Blue Ribbon Dad

Beth Raisner Glass

Abrams
2011
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In this sweet, rhyming picture book, a little boy thinks about all the special things he does with his dad—schoolwork, reading, swimming lessons, haircuts, and more—and decides to craft a present, a homemade blue ribbon, to show his dad how much he loves him. The boy counts down the hours until his dad comes home, recalling their favorite memories and preparing the special gift. Simple text for the earliest readers and cuddly squirrel characters make this precious picture book the perfect way to celebrate Dad on Father's Day, or any day of the year.Praise for Blue-Ribbon Dad“A celebration of a dad's return. Share for Father’s Day or when a daddy is about to return from a trip.” –Kirkus Reviews“A slam dunk for Father’s Day.” –Booklist“Moore’s delicately outlined watercolors mirror the coziness of the text.” –Publishers Weekly “The rhyming text and large illustrations are ideal for a read-aloud. This is a good pick for celebrating fathers.” –School Library Journal
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Colonizing Nature

Colonizing Nature

Beth Fowkes Tobin

University of Pennsylvania Press
2004
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With its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea, cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how dominion over "the tropics" as both a region and an idea became central to the way in which Britons imagined their role in the world. Tobin examines georgic poetry, landscape portraiture, natural history writing, and botanical prints produced by Britons in the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and India to uncover how each played a crucial role in developing the belief that the tropics were simultaneously paradisiacal and in need of British intervention and management. Her study examines how slave garden portraits denied the horticultural expertise of the slaves, how the East India Company hired such artists as William Hodges to paint and thereby Anglicize the landscape and gardens of British-controlled India, and how writers from Captain James Cook to Sir James E. Smith depicted tropical lands and plants. Just as mastery of tropical nature, and especially its potential for agricultural productivity, became key concepts in the formation of British imperial identity, Colonizing Nature suggests that intellectual and visual mastery of the tropics-through the creation of art and literature-accompanied material appropriations of land, labor, and natural resources. Tobin convincingly argues that the depictions of tropical plants, gardens, and landscapes that circulated in the British imagination provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped the British Empire.
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Fireworks Every Night

Fireworks Every Night

Beth Raymer

RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
2023
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A young woman trapped in a deeply dysfunctional family in the seedy wilds of 1990s South Florida has to make a choice--save her family, or save herself--in this larger-than-life debut novel from the acclaimed author of Lay the Favorite. "With raw humor and even more raw pain, Beth Raymer's Fireworks Every Night alchemizes the ubiquitous Florida Man headlines into a powerful, humane family portrait."--Xhenet Aliu, author of Brass "Florida, we got it all. Motor sports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night." That's how twelve-year-old C.C.'s father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burned down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a life for himself, his wife, and his two young daughters in a place he picked largely at random, because the living seemed easy. C.C.'s mother is thirty-five going on seventeen, a housewife who just wants to drive a Mustang and hang out at the mall. C.C.'s sister goes from being a sweet, cheerful pre-teen to having a full-on drug addiction and listening only to heavy metal, after enduring forms of abuse within her family. In the midst of this chaos, C.C. is trying to stay afloat and make it out--to achieve some semblance of a stable life in America while coming up against the structural and cultural challenges of growing up in poverty. This tumultuous coming-of-age novel features an unforgettable protagonist, a character who narrates her life story with dark comedy and compassion for her family, even as she is failed by them. Those failures--and her self-taught methods for succeeding anyway--are the backbone of this deeply funny and surprisingly poignant story about hard bargains, family loyalties, and the grit of a woman determined to create a better life for herself than the one she was born into.
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Keats's ""Paradise Lost

Keats's ""Paradise Lost

Beth Lau

University Press of Florida
1998
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This edition and analysis of John Keats's marginalia in his personal copy of Milton's epic poem makes available all of Keats's ""Paradise Lost"" annotations and textual markings. Accompanying discussion analyzes patterns and themes in Keats's ""Paradise Lost"" marginalia, dates them, and explores the practice of writing in books in the early 19th century. Lau's work presents primary Keats materials and offers a formal study of this neglected aspect of Keats's canon. Keats's marginalia convey a wealth of information about his reading habits and aesthetic tastes generally, as well as about his life, personality and creative process. They also enhance our understanding of Milton's deep and far-ranging influence on Keats's thought and work. In addition, the book makes an important contribution to the study of marginalia as a genre - one that flourished in the Romantic era. Finally, it helps to document a stage of history in the reception of Milton's poems and therefore should be of interest to Milton scholars as well as to Keats and Romantics scholars.
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Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body

Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body

Beth Zagrobelny Lofgren

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
2025
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Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body offers an interpretation of John Paul II's theology of the body that demonstrates how it can encompass intersexual bodies. Intersexuality has been used to challenge binary anthropologies, such as the late pope's. Beth Zagrobelny Lofgren theorizes that John Paul II's anthropology answers the "frequency dilemma," by learning from male and female bodies while respecting the humanity of people with ambiguous bodies.To argue this, Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body offers biological, psychological, and theological literature on intersexuality (focusing on the anthropologies of Susannah Cornwall and Megan DeFranza), followed by the late pope's anthropology (focusing on original solitude, the spousal meaning of the body, and the semiotic meanings of the body). This volume demonstrate that intersexual bodies have a spousal meaning, although obscured, and use original solitude to show that John Paul II attributes to the human body meaning not dependent on sexual difference: the first man learns from his solitary body that he is relational. This relationality is fundamental to the imago Dei and undergirds the imago Dei found in communion. Intersexual bodies share human nature and thus the bodily call to relationship.Finally, Lofgren argues that John Paul II's eschatology involves a transformation of humankind that fulfills the semiotic value of the body. The sign gives way to the mystery: the person fully realized as self-gift. Because the mystery does not depend on the sign, this vision includes intersexual bodies. This discussion leads to a brief consideration of celibacy and marriage for persons with intersexual conditions. This is currently the only application of John Paul II's theology of the body to these complex situations.
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African Women

African Women

Beth Raps; Catherine Coquery-vidrovitch

Westview Press Inc
1997
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Over the last century, the social and economic roles played by African women have evolved dramatically. Long confined to home and field, overlooked by their menfolk and missionaries alike, African women worked, thought, dreamed, and struggled. They migrated to the cities, invented new jobs, and activated the so-called informal economy to become Africa's economic and social focal point. As a result, despite their lack of education and relatively low status, women are now Africa's best hope for the future.This sweeping and innovative book is the first to reconstruct the full history of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the lot of African women from the eve of the colonial period to the present, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch explores the stages and forms of women's collective roles as well as their individual emancipation through revolts, urban migrations, economic impacts, social claims, political strength, and creativity. Comparing case studies drawn from throughout the region, she sheds light on issues ranging from gender to economy, politics, society, and culture. Utilizing an impressive array of sources, she highlights broad general patterns without overlooking crucial local variations. With its breadth of coverage and clear analysis of complex questions, this book is destined to become a standard text for scholars and students alike.
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Deserving Desire

Deserving Desire

Beth Montemurro

Rutgers University Press
2014
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Women experience considerable changes in their bodies, lives, and identity between the ages of twenty and seventy, including marriage, motherhood, the dissolution of relationships, and menopause, all of which often impact sexuality. In Deserving Desire, Beth Montemurro takes a wide-ranging look at the evolution of women’s sexuality over time, with a specific focus on the development of sexual subjectivity—that is sexual confidence, agency, and a sense of entitlement to sexual desire.Detailed stories of the ninety-five women in this study explore how they become more comfortable with their bodies, when most begin to enjoy sex, feel confident and positive about engaging in it, and how they become sexual subjects in control of their bodies. Deserving Desire explores the complex multi-stage process in which sexual subjectivity evolves over a woman’s lifetime. As girls, they learn about sex and how those around them—parents, peers, religion and media—regard sex. Physical and emotional transitions such as having a baby or ending a relationship further affect women’s sexual confidence and desire. Montemurro emphasizes that sexual subjectivity is about feeling in control of sexual decision making and acting purposefully and confidently. Though adolescent sexuality has been a major focus of sociological research, few studies have examined, as Montemurro does here, the development of sexuality through women’s lives and the events that change the way women feel about themselves, their bodies, and their relationships.
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Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Beth B. Cohen

Rutgers University Press
2018
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2017 Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize (WLEFP) Finalist The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors of the Holocaust, historian Beth B. Cohen weaves together survivor testimonies and archival documents to bring their story to light. She reveals that even as child survivors were resettled and “saved,” they struggled to adapt to new lives as members of adoptive families, previously unknown American Jewish kin networks, or their own survivor relatives. Nonetheless, the youngsters moved ahead. As Cohen demonstrates, the experiences both during and after the war shadowed their lives and relationships through adulthood, yet an identity as “survivors” eluded them for decades. Now, as the last living link to the Holocaust, the voices of Child Survivors are finally being heard.
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Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Beth B. Cohen

Rutgers University Press
2018
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2017 Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize (WLEFP) Finalist The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors of the Holocaust, historian Beth B. Cohen weaves together survivor testimonies and archival documents to bring their story to light. She reveals that even as child survivors were resettled and “saved,” they struggled to adapt to new lives as members of adoptive families, previously unknown American Jewish kin networks, or their own survivor relatives. Nonetheless, the youngsters moved ahead. As Cohen demonstrates, the experiences both during and after the war shadowed their lives and relationships through adulthood, yet an identity as “survivors” eluded them for decades. Now, as the last living link to the Holocaust, the voices of Child Survivors are finally being heard.
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Digital Source Evaluation: Guiding Secondary Students in a Deepfake World

Digital Source Evaluation: Guiding Secondary Students in a Deepfake World

Beth Walsh-Moorman; Kristine E. Pytash

National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte
2024
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How can we teach students to discern fact from fiction in a deepfake world? Embark on a journey into digital source evaluation with Beth Walsh-Moorman and Kristine Pytash as they delve into a comprehensive analysis of useful and proven instructional methods. Drawing from their experiences with educators and learners, the authors offer a rich tapestry of pedagogical approaches. Readers will gain insight into: fostering critical thinking skills in students as they navigate the digital landscape;helping students carefully analyze digital content for truthfulness and bias;engaging students thoughtfully with online content; andencouraging students to exercise discernment in their choice of digital media sources.Blending theory and practical examples, this book is a must-have for educators aiming to equip their students with the skills to excel as astute readers, proficient writers, and analytical thinkers in today's digital landscape.
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Voices from the Ape House

Voices from the Ape House

Beth Armstrong

Ohio State University Press
2020
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Exploring the history humans share with gorillas, Voices from the Ape House offers a behind-the-scenes look at the complicated social lives of western lowland gorillas through the eyes of a devoted zookeeper. The memoir traces Beth Armstrong's love and fascination for animals, from her childhood to her work with captive primates as an adult. Through her eyes, readers sense the awe and privilege of working with these animals at the Columbus Zoo. Individual gorillas there had an enormous effect on her life, shaping and influencing her commitment to improving gorilla husbandry and to involving her zoo in taking an active role to protect gorillas in the wild. Through anecdotal stories, readers get a glimpse into the fascinating lives of gorillas-the familiar gentleness of mothers and fathers toward their infants, power plays and social climbing, the unruly nature of teenagers, the capacity for humor, and the shared sadness by group members as they mourn the death of one of their own. In the end, Armstrong's conflict with captivity and her lifelong fondness for these animals helped shape a zoo program dedicated to gorilla conservation.
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Textual Contraception

Textual Contraception

Beth Widmaier Capo

Ohio State University Press
2021
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Between the 1910s and 1940s, American women fought for and won the right to legal birth control. This battle was fought in the courts, in the media, and in the pages of American literature. Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction examines the relationship between aesthetic production and political activism in the birth control movement. It concludes that, by dramatically bringing to life the rhetorical issues, fiction played a significant role in shaping public consciousness. Concurrently, the potential for female control inherent in contraception influenced literary technique and reception, supporting new narrative possibilities for female characters beyond marriage and motherhood. Merging cultural analysis and literary scholarship, this compelling work moves from a consideration of how cultural forces shaped literary production and political activism to a close examination of how fictional representations of contraception influenced the terms of public discourse on marriage, motherhood, economics, and eugenics. By analyzing popular fiction such as Mother by Kathleen Norris, radical periodicals such as The Masses and Birth Control Review, and literature by authors from Theodore Dreiser to William Faulkner, and Nella Larsen to Mary McCarthy, Beth Widmaier Capo reveals the rich cross-influence of contraceptive and literary history
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Spot in the Dark

Spot in the Dark

Beth Gylys

Ohio State University Press
2021
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Spot in the Dark is a collection of poetry exploring the nuances of human relationships. From new love to extramarital affairs to dating to solitude, the book's four sections read as a journey by a series of narrators who wrestle through the beginning and middle stages of love, the complications of an affair, and the challenges of single life, and finally come to focus on the external world: the beauty and starkness of a winter landscape, the ebullience of spring, the breathtaking loveliness of a sunset. The book's arc moves from examining the human wish and will to connect to another to presenting the self as part of a larger, richer, and more complicated set of external relationships. Written predominantly in free verse, these sometimes meditative, sometimes cynical, sometimes playful poems sift through the difficulties and pleasures of living in the world.
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Grief on the Road to Emmaus

Grief on the Road to Emmaus

Beth L Hewett

Liturgical Press
2023
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In Grief on the Road to Emmaus, experienced bereavement author and facilitatorBeth Hewettoffers help for people interested in walking with those who grieve and supporting their mourning. Using the story of the bereaved disciples walking with Jesus to Emmaus and personal grief vignettes, this message is grounded in Benedictine monastic values that emphasize love, mutuality, hospitality, listening, prayer, humility, action, and community. This readable guide introduces a ministry of consolation, complete with facilitator skills, practices, and strategies for healing to assist readers to accompany the bereaved compassionately, leading each other to hope after loss.
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Arrested Justice

Arrested Justice

Beth E. Richie

New York University Press
2012
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Illuminates the threats Black women face and the lack of substantive public policy towards gendered violence Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism, persistent poverty, class inequality, limited access to support resources or institutions, Beth E. Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the U.S.-based movement to end violence against women. Richie argues that Black women face particular peril because of the ways that race and culture have not figured centrally enough in the analysis of the causes and consequences of gender violence. As a result, the extent of physical, sexual and other forms of violence in the lives of Black women, the various forms it takes, and the contexts within which it occurs are minimized—at best—and frequently ignored. Arrested Justice brings issues of sexuality, class, age, and criminalization into focus right alongside of questions of public policy and gender violence, resulting in a compelling critique, a passionate re-framing of stories, and a call to action for change.
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