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Recommended Reading


Help!  My Teen is Dating.  Real Solutions to Tough Conversations.  Mike Domitrz
(WI: Awareness Publications LLC, 2007). 

May I Kiss You?  A Candid Look at Dating, Communication, Respect, & Sexual Assault Awareness.  Mike Domitrz (WI: Awareness Publications LLC, 2003).

Voices of Courage:  Inspiration from Survivors of Sexual Assault.  Mike Domitrz
(WI: Awareness Publications LLC, 2005). 

Allies in healing: When The Person You Love Was Sexually Abused As A Child. Laura Davis (NY: Harper Perennial, 1991).

Clandestine Confessions.  Nina Holden (Gavta Publishing, 2005).

The Courage to Heal Workbook- For Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse.  Laura Davis (NY:  Harper Perennial; 1st edition, 1990).

The Date Rape Prevention Book:  The Essential Guide for Girls and Women.  Scott Lindquist (Sourcebooks Inc, 2000).

Ditch That Jerk : Dealing With Men Who Control and Hurt Women.  Pamela Jayne (Hunter House, 2000).

Emotionally Involved: The Impact of Researching Rape.  Rebecca Campbell (Routledge, 2001).

Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Your Life Back. Ginny Nicarthy (WA: Seal Press, 1997).

The Gift of Fear.  Gavin De Becker (Dell, 1998).

Growing Beyond Abuse: A Workbook for Survivors of Sexual Exploitation or Childhood Sexual Abuse.  Signe L. Nestingen and Laurel Ruth Lewis (MN:  Omni Recovery Inc., 1990).

Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress.  Elizabeth G. Vermilyea (MD:  Sidran Press, 2000).

Healing the Trauma of Abuse:  A Woman's Workbook. Mary Ellen Copeland and Maxine Harris (CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2000).

The Hired Hand: A Case of Clergy Abuse.  Donna E. Scott (America Publishing, 2001).

I Can't Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors, 2nd edition.  Aphrodite Matsakis (CA: New Harbinger Publications, 1996).

I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape.  Robin Warshaw (NY: Harper Perennial, 1994).

If He is Raped: A Guidebook for Parents, Partners, Spouses, and Friends. Alan McEvoy, Debbie Rollo, and Jeff Brookings (FL: Learning Publications Inc., 2003).

If She Is Raped: A Guidebook for Husbands, Fathers, and Male Friends. Alan W. McEvoy and Jeff B. Brookings (FL: Learning Publications Inc., 1991).

If You Are Raped:  What Every Woman Needs To Know.  Kathryn M. Johnson (FL: Learning Publications Inc., 1985).

It Happened to Me: A Teen's Guide to Overcoming Sexual Abuse.  William Lee Carter (CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2002).

Male On Male Rape.  Michael Scarce (MA: Perseus Publishing, 1997).

   No Secrets, No Lies:  How Black Families Can Heal From Sexual Abuse.  Robin Stone 

   (Broadway Books, 2004).

The Other Side of Silence: Women Tell About Their Experiences With Date Rape.  Christine Carter (Avocus Publishing, 1995).

Rape in Marriage.  Diane E.H. Russell (Indiana University Press, 1990).

Reaching Men.  Strategies for Preventing Sexist Attitudes, Behaviors, and Violence.  Rus Ervin Funk (JIST Publishing, 2006).

Real Rape.  Susan Estrich (Harvard University Press, 1988).

Recovering from rape (2nd edition).  Linda Ledray (NY:  Henry Holt and Company, 1994)

Safe Beginnings:  Protecting Our Children from Sexual Abuse.  Shirley Paceley and Orieda Horn Anderson (Blue Tower Training Center, 2003).

Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest And Its After Effects In Women. Sue E. Blume (Ballantine Books Inc.,1997).

Sex in the Forbidden Zone: When  Men in Power – Therapists, Doctors, Clergy, Teachers and Others – Betray  Women's Trust.  Peter Rutter (Fawcett Book Group, 1996).

Sexual Assault In Context:  Teaching College Men About Gender.  Christopher Kilmartin and Alan Berkowitz (FL: Learning Publications, 2000).

Stolen Innocence.  Erin Merryn (Health Communications Inc.,  2004).

Stopping Rape:  A Challenge for Men.  Rus Ervin Funk (PA:  New Society Publishers, 1993).

Strong at the Broken Places:  Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse.  Linda Sanford (Avon Books, 1990).

Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse: Practical Self-Help for Adults Who Were Sexually Abused As Children.  Carolyn Ainscough and Kay Toon (Perseus Publishing, 2000).

Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape. Charlotte Pierce-Baker (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000).

Survivors and Partners:  Healing the Relationships of Sexual Abuse Survivors. Paul A. Hansen  (Heron Hill Publishing Co, 1991).

Transforming A Rape Culture (Reprint Edition).  Emilie Buchwald, Pamela R. Fletcher, and Martha Roth  (Milkweed Editions, 1995).

Trust After Trauma.  A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them.  Aphrodite Matsakis (CA: New Harbinger Publications, 1998).

The Verbally Abusive Relationship:  How to Recognize It and How to Respond.  Patrician Evans (MA: Adams Media Corporation, 1996).

Victims No Longer: Men Recovering From Incest And Other Sexual Child Abuse, Reprint edition.  Michael Lew  (NY: Harper & Row, 1990).

Voices of Courage:  Inspiration from Survivors of Sexual Assault.  Mike Domitrz
(WI: Awareness Publications LLC, 2005). 

Who's Afraid Of The Dark? A Forum Of Truth, Support, And Assurance For Those Affected By Rape.  Cynthia Carosella (NY: Harper Perennial, 1995).

You Are Not Alone: Guide For Battered Women.  Linda P. Rouse (FL: Learning Publications Inc., 1986).