Elaine Storkey
Scars Across Humanity
20 articles filed under Scars Across Humanity.
2019
Scars Across Humanity – Book Award 2019
I’m delighted that the second edition of Scars Across Humanity, published 2018 by IVP Academic, won top award in the Politics and Public Life section of CT Book Awards. This was their…
Martha – Women Alive Series
Martha Study passage: John 11: 1-44 You’ve heard this description more than once: “She’s such a Martha!” It’s meted out, critically, to any woman who feels everything lies on her shoulders…
2018
Next edition Scars Across Humanity IVP
Delighted to post that a new edition of Scars Across Humanity will be published by IVP on Feb 20 2018. Here’s a snippet from the revised first chapter: Breaking the silence The reality of…
2016
Intimate Partner Abuse: profile of abusers
The Rob Tichener profile on The Archers (BBC Radio 4) has been carefully constructed. It accurately reflects the attitudes, controlling behaviour and motivation of many abusers. The way his…
Campaign Trail
Confirmed Itinerary February 16- May 24 2016 Feb 16 St Edmundsbury Cathedral: ‘Roots of Violence’ Feb 21 Radio Ulster: Sunday Sequence Feb 21 BBC 1 Big Question- Is Atheism the Rational…
2015
The art of the reviewer
A thank you to my reviewers A book becomes a very personal part of life for an author, so exposure to reviewers can be quite an invasive process. To have someone else pick over your…
Gender-based violence as a weapon of war
Scars Across Humanity Posting 14 Chapter 9 Sexual Violence and War From any angle, war and terrorism are a horrible blight on the human race………. War embodies a gender paradox. It is…
Surviving Abuse – your stories
Scars Across Humanity posting 13 I am posting, with permission, two of the responses sent to me from readers of my page who have survived abuse. One, in her 20s, wishes to remain anonymous…
Surviving rape
Scars Across Humanity Chapter 9 Rape After emails from a few people, in this posting I’d like to sound the more hopeful note, which ends the harrowing stories in the chapter on rape and the…
Rape
Scars Across Humanity Posting 11 Chapter 8 Rape We are told to forgive and forget . . . But I couldn’t forgive and I couldn’t forget . . . Then I realized . . . I have a right to remember…
Trafficking and Prostitution
Chapter Scars Across Humanity Posting 10 Chapter 7 Money Sex and Violence: Trafficking and prostitution Sexual exploitation eroticizes women’s inequality and is a vehicle for racism and…
Intimate-partner Violence
Scars Across Humanity Post 9 Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: Violence in the Home ‘In an article for the US magazine Glamour, editor-at-large Liz Brody tells a story familiar to people who…
Honour Killings
Scars Across Humanity Post 8 Whose ‘honour’? Killings and femicide as reprisals for shame He told me that in his society, a man is like a piece of gold, a woman is like a piece of silk. If…
Child Marriage? – child abuse
Scars Across Humanity Post 7 Chapter 4 Early and Enforced Marriage: child abuse by another name This is an issue about life, families, communities, broken dreams and shattered bodies. It is…
Female Genital Mutilation
Scars Across Humanity Post 6 Chapter three: Female Genital Mutilation ‘The pain of circumcision is like a heavy burden I always carry with me. It is like darkness in my life, in my chest…
Chapter 2 Violence begins before birth
Scars Across Humanity Post 5 Chapter 2 Violence Begins Before Birth: Selective Abortion and Infanticide (Photo- campaign to save the girl foetus) Having a girl is to plant a seed in someone…
Introduction and Chapter 1 Quotes
Scars Across Humanity Post 4 Over the next few days I’m offering quotations and brief excerpts from the beginning of each chapter, so you can think about whether it’s a book you might want…
Chapter Contents Page
Scars Across Humanity- post No. 3 Chapter Contents Thanks for all your interest. As promised – some more information of what’s in the book. The Introduction focuses on the justice-seeking…
Scars Across Humanity. Launch Dates
Launch Dates will be updated over the next few weeks. Launches will be in different formats depending on context. So far, confirmed dates are: October 23 Dedworth Festival 4pm and 7pm –…
Scars Across Humanity
My new book will be published on November 25th to coincide with the UN Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women. I shall be giving the title and heading quote for each…