Here to Help – Adult Sexual Assault

For life’s big and small moments Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh staff have created Here to Help booklists. Here to Help booklists provide information and support in navigating life experiences. Librarians at your neighborhood library are here to help too and can offer suggestions for these or other topics of interest, as well as community information and resources. Through these booklists you can create opportunities to find connection, solace, comfort, or information for action.

The books in this list provide information and resources for adults about sexual assault and sexual violence.

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After Campus Sexual Assault: a Guide for Parents

Based on years of research and scores of quotes from students, mothers, fathers, and campus service providers, this book sheds light on campus culture today, the range of actions that comprise campus sexual assault, and the many impacts on victims and their families. Importantly, this book offers compassionate guidance for navigating the often-tumultuous time that follows an assault.


Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence


Black Box: the Memoir That Sparked Japan's #MeToo Movement

Black Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman’s struggle for justice, calling for changes to an industry—and in society at large—to ensure that future victims of sexual assault can come forward without being silenced and humiliated.

You can also check out this title as an eBook or in eAudio on Hoopla.




One Way Back: a Memoir


Rape and Sexual Assault: a Reference Handbook




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

From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the “me too” movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words — me too — and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history.

You can also check out this title as an eBook or in eAudio on Libby and as in eAudio on Hoopla.


Vengeance Feminism: the Power of Black Women's Fury in Lawless Times

In a world where Black women are castigated and caricatured for being angry, Vengeance Feminism tells the story of those who leaned into their fury, crafting a different kind of ideology that scratched and stabbed and sometimes even succeeded. Reckoning with women who lied, robbed, and cheated a racist, misogynistic world, Vengeance Feminism grapples with the volatile power of violence in pursuit of racial and gender justice.