Invisible girls the truth about sexual abuse
Sexual abuse of young girls is epidemic, but if the abuse can be processed when girls are still young (in their teens and early twenties) remarkable healing can take place. Invisible Girls weaves together powerful first-person narratives with gentle guidance and seasoned insights to help girls throu...
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Berkeley, Calif. :
Seal Press,
c2009.
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| Edition: | New and rev. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. What is pandora's box? Sexual abuse and how it affects us
- Ask Dr. Patti : answers to girls' questions about sexual abuse
- Crossing over : girlhood to womanhood
- Troubled families
- Finding your truth : facing the emotional aftershocks and the beginning of healing
- Part 2. Before we open the box
- Girls' genius : how girls get through the actual abuse experience (Zinnia's story, Lily's story)
- Part 3. Opening pandora's box : girls tell their stories
- The deepest wound : father-daughter incest (Coral's story, Garnet's story)
- Too close for comfort : other incest
- brothers, cousins, uncles, and stepfathers (Topa's story, Sage's story)
- Trusting the wrong men : abuse by teachers, coaches, and clergy (Ivy's story)
- Pushed too far : acquaintance sexual abuse (Amber's story, Jasmine's story)
- Rape always hurts : stranger rape/date rape/gang rape (Iris's story, Dahlia's story)
- Stop calling us whores : prostitution is sexual abuse
- Part 4. The road back
- Different path to healing
- Supportive families speak out (Jannie's mother's story, Emily's mother's story, Pearl's story)
- Finding your support posse.
