Tag: Women

September 16, 2023

Policing the Womb Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood [Audiobook]

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Free Download Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B8PGCYZH | 2023 | 13 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Michele Goodwin
Narrator: Robin Eller
Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized.

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September 16, 2023

Disobedient Women How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an [Audiobook]

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Free Download Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVDLMVWF | 2023 | 8 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Sarah Stankorb
Narrator: Sarah Stankorb
Journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet-its networks, freedom of expression, and resources for deeply researching and reporting on powerful church figures-allowed women to begin dismantling the false authority of evangelical communities that had long demanded their submission. A generation of American Christian girls was taught submitting to men is God’s will. They were taught not to question the men in their families or their pastors. They were told to remain sexually pure and trained to feel shame if a man was tempted. Some of these girls were abused and assaulted. Some made to shrink down so small they became a shadow of themselves. To question their leaders was to question God. All the while, their male leaders built fiefdoms from megachurches and sprawling ministries. They influenced politics and policy. To protect their church’s influence, these men covered up and hid abuse. American Christian patriarchy, as it rose in political power and cultural sway over the past four decades, hurt many faithful believers.

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