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A Collective of Women: "Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes of Thought in Closed Groups" - abstract
American Psychiatric Association: "Statement on Repressed Memories of Abuse"
APA: "Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse"
Baker, Amy, Ph.D.: "The Cult of Parenthood: A Qualitative Study of Parental Alientation" - abstract
Betz, Katherine: "No Place to Go: Life in a Prison Without Bars" - abstract
Boulette, Teresa, Ph.D. & Andersen, Susan M., Ph.D.: "Mind Control and the Battering of Women" - abstract
Boyle, Robin Esq.: "Current Status of Federal Law Concerning Violent Crimes Against Women and Children: Implications for Cult Victims"
Boyle, Robin, J.D.: "Women, the Law, and Cults: Three Avenues of Recourse--New Rape Laws, Violence Against Women Act, and Antistalking Laws" - abstract
Cheng, Cliff, Ph.D.: "The 'Helpmate" of Males: An Ethnography on Sex Segregation and Theocracy" - abstract
Dahlen, Penny, Ed.D.: "Working with Women Survivors of Cults" - abstract
Garden, Mary: "The Potential for Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship"
Lalich, Janja: "Dominance and Submission: The Psychosexual Exploitation of Women in Cults" - abstract
Lalich, Janja: "Women Under The Influence"
Meikle, Jessie: "Imposed Anorexia: A Model of Dietary Restriction in Four Ideological Groups" - abstract
Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers - Book Review by Janja Lalich, Ph.D.
Rahda, Devi Dasi: "Participation, Protection and Patriarchy: An International Model for the Role of Women in ISKCON"
Rosedale, Herbert, Esq.: "Women and Cults: A Lawyer's Perspective"
Rosen, Shelly: "Gender Attributes that Affect Women's Attraction to and Involvement in Cults" - abstract
Rudin, Marcia: "Women, Elderly, and Children in Religious Cults" - abstract
Stein, Alexandra: "Mothers in Cults: The Influence of Cults on the Relationship of Mothers to Their Children" - abstract
The Serpent Rising: A Journey of Spiritual Seduction - Book Review by Marybeth Ayella, Ph.D.
Ward, David: "Domestic Violence as a Cultic System" - abstract
Weishaupt, Kaynor & Stensland, Michael: "Wifely Subjection: Mental Health Issues in Jehovah's Witness Women" - abstract

Africa: Polygamy Not to Blame for South Africa HIV

Alamo could use a prison consultant

An abuse of belief

ANALYSIS-Saudi speeds up education reform, clerics resist

Attacker a white supremacist?

Australia: Mind Manipulating Pedophile Sentenced

B.C. court quashes polygamy charges against controversial leaders of Bountiful

B.C. court quashes polygamy charges against controversial leaders of Bountiful

Bahais claim Iran persecutes believers

Barsana Dham a magical place for worshippers - Temple is one of the largest Hindu worship centers in the country.

BARSANA DHAM TEMPLE Infomercial executives help support Hindu temple Hindu temple used direct marketing as means of financial support.

Battered Woman's Syndrome Applies to Men Too, Judge Finds

Bill would help women leaving polygamists

Book Review: Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers

Bountiful blues

Celina: Baba Ramdev, the outlaw!

Church Killing Case May Hinge on Abuse

Church Killing Case May Hinge on Abuse

Corrupt Legionaries exposed

Cult sex: Leader's term upheld

Cult Violence and the Identity Movement

Does Islam insist on polygamy? A response

Domestic Violence as a Cultic System

Dominance and Submission: The Psychosexual Exploitation of Women in Cults

Drop polygamy charges: liberties watchdog

Expert paid $500,000 for report on Elizabeth Smart kidnapper

FBI: No updates on Shawano hit list

Former plural wife discusses religious teachings in Texas FLDS trial

Gender Attributes That Affect Women's Attraction to and Involvement in Cults

Girls not allowed to wear jeans in SGPC colleges

Interfaith Coalition Concerned About Cults’ Abuse of Women, Children

Introduction: "We Own Her Now"

Japanese premier's wife claims alien abduction

Japanese premier's wife claims alien abduction

Jeffs loses bid to re-interview officials about raid

Judge denies defense motion in Jeffs case

Lia Eden sentenced to prison, again

Maine woman avoids prison in killing of white supremacist husband after years of abuse

Manson cult member dies in jail from cancer

Mennonite abuse survivor speaks out against church

Mind Control and the Battering of Women

More the merrier for Christian movement

Mother of the Female Suicide Bombers’ speaks out

Mothers in Cults: The Influence of Cults on the Relationship of Mothers to Their Children

New move to unseat attorney representing polygamous sect leader's daughter

New site eyed for building in Colorado City

No easy solutions in polygamous church land fight

North Bay Spiritual Guru Sentenced In Beating

North Idaho polygamist sect drawing new scrutiny

Nothing sacred about polygamy

Polygamist predicts opponents will be 'damned'

Polygamous sect protesters rally at courthouse for FLDS trust case hearing

Polygamy: Green Admits Guilt

Prophet Without Honor

Quiet Muslim-Only Town in N.Y. Founded by Alleged Terrorist

Repairing The Soul After A Cult

Richard Hamlin gets life in prison

Roundup: Tories prepared to stand ground on polygamy: documents

Second trial begins for polygamist charged with sexual assault of a child

Sex, Lies, and Grand Schemes of Thought in Closed Groups

Tales of women trapped in marriages to Mungiki sect men

Texas AG: Polygamist sect man skirted bank laws

Texas lawmakers forming panel to examine FLDS raid

That Girl: The Captivity and Restoration of Patty Hearst

The anguish of young women

The Body (Attleboro Sect): Mother to Use “Battered Woman’s Defense” in Child’s Death

The bottom line

When battered women keep their silence

White Sikhs – foreigners who found faith in Sikhism

Wifely Subjection: Mental Health Issues in Jehovah's Witness Women

Wives galore

Woman sues Jeffs, FLDS Church over 'forced spiritual marriage'

Woman Suing Church of Scientology Says She Was “Brainwashed”

Woman Suspected in Several Ecoterror Cases

Woman Tells How “MOONIES” Pursued Her

Woman Tells of Forced Marriage at Polygamist Hearing

Woman who aided surgery on neighbor is convicted

Woman Who Beat Jehovah's Witness Gets Jail

Woman who declared herself an apostate has to enter her defence in Syariah court

Woman who escaped from polygamist cult spoke of her ordeal

Woman Who Escaped Polygamous Sect Revisits Her Past

Woman Who Escaped Polygamy Breaks Silence

Woman who heckled China leader makes plea to NJ governor

Woman who left U.S. polygamous cult speaks at Vancouver film fest

Woman who masterminded Findhorn Foundation dies at age of 89

Woman: Deion Sanders discouraged rape report

Woman's Day on Satanism

Women and Cults: A Lawyer's Perspective

Women appear in court on unlawful midwifery charges

Women Call Swami Chetanananda Controlling and Abusive

Women Charge Ministers With Abuse

Women in Cults

Women offer testimonials on how Meyer’s preaching has helped them

Women say temple gurus made sexual advances - Austin American-Statesman

Women Say They Were Fired for Refusing Scientology-based Course

Women testify Jeffs compelled teens to wed older men

Women who force-fed chilli and raw eggs to children are jailed

Women, the Law, and Cults: Three Avenues of Legal Recourse--New Rape Laws, Violence Against Women Act, and Antistalking Laws, CSJ 15-1 1998

Women’s secret sect raided after follower dies in savage beating

Working with Women Survivors of Cults

Yoga Group Accused Of Coercion, Sex Assault

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