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Publication Date: 25 Nov 2015
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Page Count: 276
Author: Elaine Storkey
ISBN-13: 9780281075089, 9780281075096

Scars Across Humanity

Understanding And Overcoming Violence Against Women
By Elaine Storkey
An in-depth exploration of the breadth, intensity and root causes of gender-based violence against women, and the resources we need to drawn on in order to make a meaningful and effective stand against it.
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Summary of Scars Across Humanity

Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award - Politics and Public Life

'Scrupulously researched and documented, illustrated with both statistics and personal stories, this is a book that changes perceptions and could play a substantive role in achieving change.' -Margaret Hebblethwaite, author and missionary in Paraguay

Published to coincide with the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November 2015), Scars Across Humanity is a thoroughly documented investigation into the causes of violence against women, past and present. Global in scope, and addressing the issues as they affect women at every stage of life, this powerful book also offers a probing critique of evolutionary and social-scientific accounts of gender-based violence, and of the role that religion can play, for good or ill, in the struggle against this worldwide problem.
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About the Author of Scars Across Humanity

Elaine Storkey is a philosopher, sociologist and theologian, having held posts at the Open University, King's College, London, and the University of Oxford. In 1997 she became President of Tearfund, and has since been involved in monitoring aid, relief and advocacy work in countries of the Global South. In 2010 she and her husband Alan became founder members of Restored, an organisation committed to advocating against violence to women.
Press Reviews

Elaine Storkey is extremely well respected. This is a hugely important book. Violence against women is a shocking blight, perpetrated on occasion by some in church life. I particularly applaud Storkey's work in 2010 establishing the campaigning group, 'Restored'. This title deserves to be widely stocked and widely read.

- Eddie Olliffe

It is a difficult and challenging book to read, leaving an imprint on your heart long after reading the words.

- Julie Corr

Scars Across Humanity is a powerful thrust in the direction of justice and inequality. By a long shot, this the most important book I’ve read in the past year – maybe my lifetime. Please read this book, and tell others to read it too.

- Tristan Sherwin

‘This is a compelling and courageous book which I believe every Christian should read. It makes for challenging and painful reading, as chapter after chapter piles up incontrovertible evidence of the scale and depth of violence against women, combining extensive research with ?rst person testimony and narrative.’

- Nicola Slee The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham

This book made me angry, upset, uncomfortable, and at some points feel physically ill. It informed me on issues I didn’t even know existed. It is powerful and it is truth and I believe that everyone should read it.

- Adair

an ‘excellent and informative book’

- Pat Pinsent

I wonder how I missed the publication of this excellent and informative book!

- Pat Pinsent

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