While working with Bessel van der Kolk, sociologist Kate Price remembered that her father had drugged her, sexually abused her, and trafficked her to men at a nearby truck stop. She now works for the Wellesley Center for Research on women against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.
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Kate Price, Wellesley Center for Research on Women
https://www.wcwonline.org/Active-Researchers/kate-price-ph-d
This Happened to Me: A Memoir
Price, Kate. This Happened to Me: A Memoir. Simon and Schuster, 2025.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Price/208723980
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
van der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
New York: Penguin, 2015
The Boston Globe’s reporting on child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests began on January 6, 2002, with a focus on the case of John Geoghan, a defrocked priest accused by 86 victims of molestation over several decades. The reporting garnered a Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Other victims came forward resulting in 249 criminal cases. The reporting was the subject of a 2015 film Spotlight which won two academy awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_Archdiocese_of_Boston
Nanos, Janelle. 2022. “Kate Price Remembers Something Terrible.” Boston Globe. July 28. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. https://apps.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2022/07/kate-price-remembers-something-terrible/
An Unthinkable Crime: The Silent Epidemic of Sexual Abuse and a New Age of Reckoning
Nanos, Janelle. An Unthinkable Crime: The Silent Epidemic of Sexual Abuse and a New Age of Reckoning. Forthcoming 2027. Penguin Random House.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735612/an-unthinkable-crime-by-janelle-nanos/
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. New York: Mariner Classics. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/fun-home-alison-bechdel?variant=39936541392930
Father-Daughter Incest
Herman, Judith. Father/Daughter Incest. Cambridge, M.A: Harvard University Press, 2000. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674002708
Bastard Out of Carolina
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York: Penguin Books, 1992. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297592/bastard-out-of-carolina-by-dorothy-allison/
Bastard Out of Carolina, the film
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115633/
Happy Valley
Gerald Arthur Sandusky was an assistant football coach at Pennsylvania State University under Joe Paterno who was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse. Happy Valley is the 2014 documentary film about the complicity of those around him and the support of fans. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2171902/
In Treatment
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0835434/
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures
Shapiro, Francine. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy. Third Edition. New York: Guilford Press, 2017. https://www.guilford.com/author/Francine-Shapiro
Tapping, or Emotional Freedom Therapy, entails tapping with your fingertips on specific acupressure points while naming what’s bothering you to calm your nervous system. https://www.thetappingsolution.com/tapping-101/
Spotlight
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/
Chesler, Phyllis. https://phyllis-chesler.com/articles/mothers-on-trial
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Giuffre, Virginia. 2025. Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice. New York, Penguin. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712958/nobodys-girl-by-virginia-roberts-giuffre/
Leaving Neverland
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9573980/
Picture a Scientist
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11906032/
Surviving R. Kelly. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8385496/
Congress allowed the Child Tax Credit, expanded under COVID, to expire. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/30/1069143123/expanded-child-tax-credit-expires-friday-congress
Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations
Inal, Tuba. Looting and Rape in Wartime. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. https://www.pennpress.org/9780812223842/looting-and-rape-in-wartime/
Inal documents Eleanor Roosevelt’s opposition to explicitly recognize rape in war in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The United States has yet to ratify the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
MacKinnon, Catharine. 2016. “Rape Redefined.” Harvard Law & Policy Review. 10(2): 431-77. https://journals.law.harvard.edu/lpr/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2016/06/10.2_6_MacKinnon.pdf
Price, Kate and Keith Gunnar Bentele. 2023. “Defining Worthy Victims: Socioeconomic Factors Associated with State-level Legislative Decisions to Prevent the Criminalization of Sexually Exploited Children in the United States.” Victims & Offenders 18(3): 514-544. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15564886.2022.2153956
Price, Kate and Keith Gunnar Bentele. 2016. “Voting to End Vulnerability: Understanding the Recent Proliferation of State-level Child Sex Trafficking Legislation.” William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 23(1): 1-26. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmjowl/vol23/iss1/3/
Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child—an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, and social, health, and cultural rights of children—in 1990 but the United States has not ratified it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child
Glynn, Adam N. and Maya Sen. 2014. “Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women’s Issues?” American Journal of Political Science 59(1): 37-54. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12118
