Street Smart Safety for Women Format: General/trade Uncorrected Reader's Copy

Description: In a book written by women for women, Street Smart Safety for Women offers tips on defensive living that will increase readers' reliance on the one thing that can protect them most: their safety intuition. Violence against women is a global health issue. The threats women face today are unparalleled and more dangerous than ever before. And, for the first time in history, the toxic cocktail of technology and social media has weaponized misogyny and virtualized violence against women. There's an even more serious challenge that faces women today. Social conditioning--the way our systems of family life, education, employment, entertainment and pop culture, spirituality and religion influence us-- leaves many of us ill-equipped to deal not only with this escalating surge of attacks, but also the unrelenting prevalence of sexual assault, domestic violence, and scams. Women have been culturally trained to discount one of their greatest protections - safety intuition. As women, it is so ingrained in us to attend to everyone else, including strangers on the street, before we listen to ourselves, that we have lost touch with our innate ability to often detect dangerous situations. As the result, we are left generally defenseless to recognise predators who manipulate our natural compassion, to our own detriment. This inability to listen to ourselves and be persuasion-proof directly affects our personal safety and data shows that attacks on women continue to escalate daily across the world, inside and outside of the home. Though everyone is talking about how women continue to be less safe, few offer solutions. Women are terrified and they are looking for answers. In Street Smart Safety for Women , retired Deputy Sheriff Joy Farrow and technologist Laura Frombach, herself a survivor of a violent household, draw on their experiences both personal and professional to provide those answers. Dedicated to educating women in personal safety and showing them a defensive living strategy and trusting in themselves can reduce their probability of becoming a victim of a crime., In a book written by women for women, Street Smart Safety for Women offers tips on defensive living that will increase readers' reliance on the one thing that can protect them most: their safety intuition., Gender-based violence has been expanding, and the threats women face today are unparalleled and more dangerous than ever before. For the first time in history, a toxic cocktail comprised of technology and social media has weaponized misogyny and virtualized violence against women in addition to all the usual dangers women face. Women are looking for answers on how to be safer and this informative book has them. Women have been socially conditioned through systems of family life, education, employment, entertainment, and pop culture to discount one of their greatest protections-safety intuition. In fact, it is so ingrained in women to attend to everyone else-sometimes even strangers on the street-before they think of themselves that they have often lost touch with this innate ability to detect dangerous situations. Women are often left ill-equipped to deal not only with this escalating surge of attacks, but also the age-old attacks of sexual assault, domestic violence, and scams. As a result, they are left generally defenseless to recognize predators who manipulate their natural compassion. Retired Deputy Sheriff Joy Farrow and technologist Laura Frombach, herself a survivor of a violent household, bring the full wealth of their knowledge and experiences to provide the "I've been where you are" perspective and educate women in personal safety showing them how a defensive living strategy and trusting in themselves can reduce the probability of becoming a victim of a crime. Some of these strategies include: Strategies for defensive living, How misogyny has weaponized technology, How to recognize predators and predatory behaviors, Dating safety tips, The implications of persuasion, manipulation, and scam artists, Keys to reaching financial security Violence against women is a global health issue. Street Smart Safety for Women focuses on understanding underlying behavior issues and providing early warning signs of a potential domestic abuser. With attention to situational awareness and the intention of helping readers access the power of their subconscious, the strategies in this book give women the confidence to be able to protect themselves in dangerous circumstances.

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