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Gender-Based Violence: A Reading List

These books about gender-based violence include memoirs, self-help and works of social science that help raise awareness of the issues involved.

Chicago Public Library

16 items

  • Assume Nothing

    a Story of Intimate Violence

    Selvaratnam, Tanya,
    BookNew York : Harper, [2021] — HV6626.2.S45 2021
  • Believing

    Our Thirty-year Journey to End Gender Violence

    Hill, Anita,
    Book[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — HQ1237.5.U6H55 2021
  • Everything I Never Dreamed

    My Life Surviving and Standing Up to Domestic Violence

    Glenn, Ruth M.,
    PaperbackNew York : Atria Books, 2022. — HV6626.2.G545 2022
  • Goodbye, Sweet Girl

    a Story of Domestic Violence and Survival

    Sundberg, Kelly, 1977-
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — HV6626.2.I2S86 2018
  • Highway of Tears

    a True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

    McDiarmid, Jessica,
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2019. — HV6762.C2.M33 2019
  • BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019] — PS3613.A2725243Z46 2019
  • No Visible Bruises

    What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

    Snyder, Rachel Louise,
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — HV6626.2.S59 2019
  • See What You Made Me Do

    the Dangers of Domestic Violence That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See

    Hill, Jess,
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2020] — HV6626.23.A8H55 2020
  • Surviving

    Why We Stay and How We Leave Abusive Relationships

    Gooden, Beverly, 1982-
    BookLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022] — HV6626.2.G6667 2022
  • Unbound

    My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

    Burke, Tarana,
    BookNew York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2021. — HV6592.B87 2021
  • Why Does He Do That?

    Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

    Bancroft, Lundy
    PaperbackNew York : Berkley Books, 2003, c2002. — HV6626.2.B255 2003