I love to write. I write letters. I keep journals. I write creatively and narratively. I write poems and fantasies. And yet, when it comes time to write about my own experience of misogyny, I am at a loss. The task seems too big. Words and phrases dash across my mind: purity culture, rape, sex, […]
Debra Meyers and Mary Sue Barnett (Eds.) – July 2020 This volume explores the historical, theological, sociological, and ethical dimensions of the current issues threatening the two thousand-year-old Roman Catholic Church. The interdisciplinary analysis contained within the volume exposes the destructive convictions and actions of the Roman Catholic clergy that has produced the current institutional […]
Debra Meyers and Mary Sue Barnett have published two anthologies over the last two years that address the crisis our society faces regarding sexual assault. Sexual assault, while an important theme in both projects, was not the only focus. As a result these two projects, Hating Girls (Brill, 2021) and Crisis and Challenge (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), have reified […]
When Hating Girls: An Intersectional Survey of Misogyny came out in the summer of 2021, it received so much attention that Knowledge Unlatched selected it for pledging as a means to provide free Open Access beginning in 2022. Knowledge Unlatched brings together university libraries from all over the world to fund open access to important books. […]
Spiritual Healing from Sexual Violence: An Intersectional Guide is a collection of essays from survivors, scholars, activist reformers, spiritual leaders, and social justice practitioners offering numerous intersectional and culturally competent options for women, men, and non-binary conforming adults to explore and to create their own safe healing conditions and establish pathways for recovery. These chapters provide many culturally unique survival stories that can raise awareness of the issues involved in healing after sexual assault while influencing society’s values and belief systems that currently hinder victim’s ability to heal. In a classroom setting, these chapters deliver both the culturally grounded knowledge and the skill sets necessary for recovery.