Edman, Elizabeth M.
Summary: "Frustrated by the notion that “Christian love = tolerance,” Edman argues that Christianity, at its scriptural core, is not a tradition that is hostile to queer people but is, in fact, itself inherently queer. Edman reveals how “queering” Christianity—that is, disrupting simplistic ways of thinking about gender and sexuality--can illuminate contemporary Christian faith and shows why queer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 EDMSummary: The secrecy surrounding domestic violence is the focus of this program. Hosted by a policewoman and a television news anchor, it contains stories of hope for women who are currently in violent relationships, and provides valuable information on how to leave an abusive partner. Specific information is included on speaking out, having a plan, when to leave, where to go, the legal aspects, getting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Rose, Jacqueline
Summary: We see it in the streets, where black people are dying at the hands of the police. We see it in our courts, whose scales are tipped toward the powerful. What about the violence behind closed doors? Rose examines violence from postapartheid South Africa to Trump's White House; trans rights, sexual assault, and the #MeToo movement. Is violence always gendered and, if so, always in the same way?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 ROSLa Bella, Laura.
Summary: Describes various types of dating violence, discussing common characteristics of abusers, ways to cope with the effects of dating violence, and where to find help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 362 LABSummary: In this provocative program, high school students offer a teen perspective on violence and its day-to-day impact at school, at home, and in the community. Opposed to the violence of which they have been a part, these young men and women speak their minds on topics including the causes of violent behavior, the effects of dysfunctional families, bullying and mob mentality, and the fear of being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Once accepted as a cultural norm in Africa, domestic violence is increasingly recognized for what it is-an assault on the rights and well-being of women, as well as a major impediment to progress on the continent. This program examines the issue in Ethiopia and South Africa, focusing on efforts to reduce and hopefully eliminate violence against women. Viewers meet survivors of domestic abuse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Schuller, Kyla
Summary: "From suffragettes to sexuality, feminist history is often told as a narrative of women united in the fight against patriarchy. But there have always been limits and fault lines in the feminist movements that centered white women's rights at the expense of all others. As scholar Kyla Schuller argues in The Trouble with White Women, white women, across political classes, have used racism and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 SCHEditors (Musical group)
Contents: Cold -- Hallelujah (So low) -- Violence -- Darkness at the door -- Nothingness -- Magazine -- No sound but the wind -- Counting spooks -- Belong -- The pulse -- When we were angels.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: PIAS 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EDISummary: Domestic violence is one of the least reported crimes in America. In Nashville, TN, we see how intense police investigation and follow-up of domestic abuse have led to the imprisonment of repeat offenders. Teens on Target shows the success of a program where a Los Angeles doctor (weary of treating young gunshot victims) and former teenage patients (half of whom have spinal injuries from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The key to reducing violence is understanding its roots. This program offers insights and suggestions that can stop dangerous incidents before they start. Among the topics explored are ways to avoid becoming a victim of campus crime, domestic abuse and the cycle of violence theory as defined by psychologist Lenore Walker, date rape and guidelines for preventing it, the triggers for bias crimes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Mind Against (Musical group)
Contents: Just tell me / Aurora Halal -- Bigna / Jonathan Kaspar -- Fatalist Patrik Schifferle -- You don't know me (Joey Anderson remix) / Konstantinos Soublis -- With you / ENØS -- Hollow / Frankey & Sandrino -- Luv44 / J. Wiltshire -- Connector / Red Axes -- Viciously searching for another dimension / Rasmus Vincentz Jensen -- D.I.S.C.O. / Roman Flügel -- Mango / Petros Manganaris -- Universa / Marino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MINDe Becker, Gavin
Summary: Covering all the dangerous situations people typically face -- street crime, domestic abuse, violence in the workplace -- de Becker provides real-life examples and offers specific advice on restraining orders, self-defense, and more. But the key to self-protection, he demonstrates, is learning how to trust -- and act on -- our own intuitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This program examines male violence towards women by following three men with a history of abuse who have joined a program to help them stop their abusive behavior. The issues of authority and control by men over women, both physically and mentally, are explored by the men and by domestic counselors as a major cause of male violence towards women. Popular misconceptions such as the woman's role...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Ellis, Rowan
Summary: Here and Queer is a helpful, friendly guide full of support and advice about living your best queer life, written for girls. This vibrant, inclusive guide, designed for all kinds of girls, is designed to help you be the strongest, proudest, happiest version of yourself! A celebration of the gift of queerness, it's packed full of heartfelt advice, comforting stories, and stylish illustrations,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.76 ELLSummary: In part one of this program, Hedrick Smith reports on how the Alliance of Concerned Men stopped a youth gang war in Benning Terrace, a public housing project in the nation's capital that had become a war zone. Alliance members Tyrone Parker and Rico Rush, former felons with new lives and a new mission, negotiate a truce with the rival gangs that ends the killing and brings hope and new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Hiding deep within the human mind-or perhaps closer to its surface than many would care to know-are forces that can cause one person to assault and kill another. This program studies the primal centers of the brain and the behaviors they control in order to gain an understanding of violence. Illustrating the role of brain chemicals like dopamine and serotonin as well as social conditioning that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Weapons in school, street gangs, kids pressuring "good" kids to commit crimes. Adolescents need a variety of survival skills when confronted by violent situations, and this program can be a key instructional resource. After viewing dramatic re-creations of various tense situations, a studio audience of adolescents discusses each threat, and what might be done to avert it. A host, acting as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In Nicaragua, a growing awareness of domestic violence and its consequences has spurred grassroots activism. This program documents the efforts of two groups, the Xochitl-Acatl Center and the Association of Men Against Violence, both of which confront gender and sexual abuse. Arguing that economic and political oppression influence male tendencies to exercise physical authority within the home,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Cheung, Kylie
Summary: "Survivor Injustice shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a "private matter" perpetrated by individual bad actors and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 CHEVillage People
Contents: Y.M.C.A. -- Macho man -- Can't stop the music -- San Francisco (you've got me) -- In Hollywood (everybody is a star) -- Ready for the 80's (12" version) -- Key West -- In the Navy -- Fire Island -- Go west (12" version) -- Village people -- Hot cop -- In the Navy (12" version) -- Y.M.C.A. (12" version).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicles 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VILRage Against the Machine (Musical group)
Contents: Bombtrack -- Killing in the name -- Take the power back -- Settle for nothing -- Bullet in the head -- Know your enemy -- Wake up -- Fistful of steel -- Township rebellion -- Freedom.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic Associated 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Rage 1992Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RAGSummary: Severely wounded, their mother kept crying out, "Please don't kill me! Please don't kill me!" What effects do the sights and sounds of domestic violence have on the malleable minds of children? In this program, ABC News anchor Hugh Downs seeks to answer that question through interviews with Betsy McAlister-Groves, director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Ballard, Jacoby
Summary: "Queer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 BALBrooks, Garth.
Contents: Man against machine -- She's tired of boys -- Cold like that -- All-American kid -- Mom -- Rodeo and Juliet -- Midnight train -- Cowboys forever -- People loving people -- Send 'em on down the road -- Fish -- You wreck me -- Tacoma.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pearl/RCA Nashville 2014