Books related to Violence Against Women Prevention

Table of ContentsSexual Violence PreventionDomestic Violence PreventionCoercive ControlEngaging MenGender SocializationPornographyNovels

Sexual Violence Prevention

• See list of Recommended Reading at:

https://crisisconnectioninc.org/recommended-reading/

Domestic Violence Prevention

• See list of Recommended Reading at:

https://crisisconnectioninc.org/recommended-reading/

Coercive Control

• Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life Evan Stark, Apr 2007

Engaging Men

• Rus Funk, Reaching Men: Strategies for Preventing Sexist Attitudes, Behaviors and Violence (2006 Jist Publications).
• Paul Kivel, Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart
• Jackson Katz, The Macho Paradox, Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help

Gender Socialization

• Lyn Mikel Brown and Sharon Lamb, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes Comments About this book
• Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence, edited by Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane (Vanderbilt University Press 2011).

Pornography

• Shira Tarrant, The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016) (Oxford University Press)
• Robert Jensen, Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity , South End Press
• Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant, editors Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, 2004 Spinifex Press
• Christopher Kendall Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination (2004 UBC Press).
• Gail Dines, Robert Jensen and Ann Russo Pornography: the Production and Consumption of Inequality (1998) (Routledge Press)
• Diana E.H. Russell Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography (1993) (Teachers College Press)
• Melissa Farley, editor Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress (2003) (Haworth Press).
• David E. Guinn with Julie DiCaro , editors **Pornography: Driving the Demand for International Sex Trafficking** (2007). publised by Captive Daughters
• Gary R. Brooks, The Centerfold Syndrome: How Men Can Overcome Objectification and Achieve Intimacy with Women, Jossey-Bass, 1995

Novels

• Anna Quindlen, Black and Blue
• Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Alice Walker, The Color Purple
• Alex Flinn, Breathing Underwater Discussion of Using for Prevention
• Alice Sebold, “Lovely Bones.”
• Alice Sebold, “Lucky.”

Young Adult Literature

• Aaron Hartzler, What We Saw
• Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
• Christa Desir, Fault Line
• Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be
• Louise O’Neill, Asking for It
• E.K. Johnston, Exit, Pursued by a Bear

See also:

SVYALit Project – Using Young Adult literature to talk with teens about sexual violence and consent.
Doctoral dissertation on the effects of Young Adult Literature on Adolescents’ rape myth acceptance.