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Flight and Fight: Escape from Polygamy

Carolyn Jessop

Book

Jessop, Carolyn, and Laura Palmer. Escape. New York: Broadway Books, 2007.

Book Reviews

Esplin-Oleski, Kathryn, “Escape by Carolyn Jessop -book review -polygamy”, November 10, 2007

One Woman's Escape from Polygamy,” Good Morning America Library, October 29, 2007 

Articles

Celizic, Mike, “Woman describes `escape' from polygamy.” TODAY Show, April 8, 2008

Madigan, Nick, “After Fleeing Polygamist Community, an Opportunity for Influence.” The New York Times, June 29, 2005

Sachs, Andrea, “Polygamy Survivor Carolyn Jessop.” TIME, October 24, 2007

Women and Children's Rights and Advocacy

Articles

Hawkes, Helen. “Girl Power” Sunday Telegraph, November 25, 2007

Maier, M.D. , Gary. “ Understanding the Dynamics of Abusive RelationshipsPsychiatric Times 13, no.9 (1996). 

Books

Kirshenbaum, Mira. Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship. Plume , 1997.

Ackerman, Robert. Before It's Too Late: Helping Women in Controlling or Abusive Relationships. HCI, 1994

Online Resources:

 

Human Rights in the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

Books

Power, Samantha. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Harper Perennial, 2003.

______. Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.

______, et al. Darfur Darfur. New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 2008.

______, Ed., Graham Allison, Ed. Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact .New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.

Website

Samantha Power website.

Articles Online

Power, Samantha. “Access Denied.” TIME Magazine, September 26, 2007.

______. “Boltonism.” The New Yorker, March 21 2005.

______. “Bystanders to Genocide,” Atlantic Monthly, September 2001.

______, and Morton Abramowitz. “Democrats: Get Loud, Get Angry!,” Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2006, section B.

______. “Dying in Darfur,” The New Yorker, August 30, 2004.

______. “How to Stop Genocide in Iraq,” Los Angeles Times, Opinion. March 5, 2007.

______. “The Human Rights Vacuum,” TIME Magazine, October 11, 2007.

______. “Missions,” The New Yorker, November 28, 2005.

______. “Punishing Evildoers,” Washington Post, April 23, 2006, section B.

______. “Rethinking Iran,” TIME Magazine, January 17, 2008.

______. “The Void: Why the Movement Needs Help,” The New Republic, May 15, 2006.

Genocide: Books and Articles

Blizzard, Sarah. Women's Roles in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide and the Empowerment of Women in the Aftermath. VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K., 2008.

Cohen, Stanley. States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering. Polity, 2001.

Horowitz, Irving. Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power. 5th ed. Transaction Publishers, 2001.

Hunt, Sewanee, and William Jefferson Clinton. This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming thePeace. Duke University, 2004.

Jacobs, Janet Liebman. “Women, Genocide, and Memory: The Ethics of Feminist Ethnography Holocaust Research.” Gender and Society, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2004): 223-238.

Mamdani, Mahmood. "The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency.” Global Policy Forum.

Wood, William B. “Geographic Aspects of Genocide: A Comparison of Bosnia and Rwanda.”Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2001): 57-75.

Woolf, Ph.D., Linda M. Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights.

Human Rights: Websites

Human Rights Web. "A Summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights." 1994.

Harvard Kennedy School. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Human Rights Watch.

Human Rights Web. Human Rights Organizations and Resources.

Human Rights Brief. Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The Carr Center for Human Rights.

Global Politics: Books, Articles, and Programs

CBS News. 60 Minutes: The War Against Women.

Globetrotter Educational Modules: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley. Human Rights Violations. 1997.

Halberstam, David. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. Scribner, 2002.

Merry, Sally Engle, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice. Chicago Series in Law and Society. University Of Chicago Press, 2006.

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