Books like Consent by Vanessa Springora

A powerful memoir by Chanel Miller in which she reclaims her identity beyond the Emily Doe moniker, detailing her experience with Brock Turner, the legal aftermath, and the broader cultural and judicial challenges faced by rape survivors.

Shy Keenan’s memoir recounts her harrowing childhood abuse, her co‑founding of Phoenix Survivors, and her quest for justice for victims of sexual violence.

Somaly Mam’s memoir chronicles her escape from child sexual slavery in Cambodia and her subsequent activism that rescued thousands of girls across Southeast Asia.

Draws on research at college and university campuses to explore the topics of sex, consent, and sexual assault, discussing statistics about the prevalence of campus rape, and offering advice on how to make college a safer experience. "What's really happening behind closed doors on America's college campuses? A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. Many 'woke' male students are more sensitive to women's concerns than previous generations ever were, while other men perpetuate the most cruel misogyny. Amid such apparent contradictions, it's no surprise that intense confusion shrouds the topic of sex on campus. Vanessa Grigoriadis dispels that confusion as no other writer could by traveling to schools large and small, embedding in their social whirl, and talking candidly with dozens of students--among them, both accusers and accused-- as well as administrators, parents, and researchers. Her unprecedented investigation presents a host of new truths. She reveals which times and settings are most dangerous for women (for instance, beware the 'red zone'); she demystifies the welter of conflicting statistics about the prevalence of campus rape; she makes a strong case that not all 'sexual assault' is equivalent; and she offers convincing if controversial advice on how schools, students, and parents can make college a safer, richer experience. The sum of her fascinating, fly-on-the-wall reportage is a revelatory account of how long-standing rules of sex and power are being rewritten from scratch."--Jacket.

An award‑winning young filmmaker and writer shares a humorous, wry coming‑of‑age memoir about navigating both American and Arab cultures while growing up.

Jacki Lyden recounts a childhood marked by her mother’s manic–depressive episodes and her own ordeals, then chronicles her own career as an NPR foreign correspondent covering wars and conflict zones, revealing the enduring bond between mother and daughter.

Lorna Sage’s frank autobiography traces her upbringing in postwar Britain, the turbulent lives of her vicar grandfather on the Welsh border, and the complexities of her own family, culminating in the themes of marriage and identity.

In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.