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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

Australia: Mind Manipulating Pedophile Sentenced

Bill would help women leaving polygamists

Book Review: Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers

Church Killing Case May Hinge on Abuse

Church Killing Case May Hinge on Abuse

Cult Violence and the Identity Movement

Domestic Violence as a Cultic System

Dominance and Submission: The Psychosexual Exploitation of Women in Cults

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

Interfaith Coalition Concerned About Cults’ Abuse of Women, Children

Introduction: "We Own Her Now"

Mind Control and the Battering of Women

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

Older Women and Cults

Polygamy: Green Admits Guilt

Repairing The Soul After A Cult

Richard Hamlin gets life in prison

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

Tales of women trapped in marriages to Mungiki sect men

The anguish of young women

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

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

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

Woman Sues over False Memories of Satanism

Woman Suing Church of Scientology Says She Was “Brainwashed”

Woman Suspected in Several Ecoterror Cases

Woman Tells How “MOONIES” Pursued Her

Woman Tells of Abusive Controls in Polygamous Mormon Splinter Group

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 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 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, Elderly, and Children In Religious Cults

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

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