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Zusatztext Carrie Goldberg turned litigation into an act of protest . The formidable US lawyer has helped countless women in the fight against gendered violence! online stalking and revenge porn Informationen zum Autor Carrie Goldberg is a victims' rights lawyer in Brooklyn, litigating for victims of stalking, sexual assault, and blackmail. Before becoming a lawyer, Carrie spent five years working for Nazi victims, and prior to starting her firm in 2014, she worked at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. She has been profiled in The New Yorker, The Times (London) , Glamour, Jezebel , and the New York Post , and has written op-eds for The Washington Post and The Huffington Post . Her major litigations include Herrick v. Grindr , NNAF v. John Doe , Hadley v. City of Anaheim , Anonymous v. NYC DOE , and Jane Doe 1-14 v. GirlsDoPorn.com, et al . She was featured in the documentary Netizens , and her life and work is the basis for an upcoming, fictional legal procedural television show. Klappentext 'Timely, necessary and uniquely authoritative . . A strikingly honest memoir and a riveting read' Margaret Talbot, New Yorker staff writer In an era of doxing, revenge porn and online stalking, the law is failing us. Tech companies are untouchable and often women are persecuted. Carrie Goldberg built her law firm on battling these unprecedented cases - from stalkers haunting their exes through social media and dating apps, to schools suspending girls who report sexual assault, to trolls making fake bomb threats in their victims' names. Here, she tells her clients' stories alongside her own remarkable journey to become the lawyer she once needed. Gripping and inspiring, Nobody's Victim shows how we must rewire the legal system for the age of the internet and gives us the weapons to fight back. 'Feminists who grew up alongside the internet-who don't see a distinction between real life and what happens online-will find Nobody's Victim instructive; those who identify as survivors will find it essential' Elle 'Goldberg writes with searing fury, but she is also smart, engaging and sometimes funny . . . A call to arms' Ms. Magazine 'Arguably the defining book of the #MeToo era so far' Refinery29 Zusammenfassung Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists - one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off - and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution....
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Carrie Goldberg is a victims' rights lawyer in Brooklyn, litigating for victims of stalking, sexual assault, and blackmail. Before becoming a lawyer, Carrie spent five years working for Nazi victims, and prior to starting her firm in 2014, she worked at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. She has been profiled in The New Yorker, The Times (London), Glamour, Jezebel, and the New York Post, and has written op-eds for The Washington Post and The Huffington Post. Her major litigations include Herrick v. Grindr, NNAF v. John Doe, Hadley v. City of Anaheim, Anonymous v. NYC DOE, and Jane Doe 1-14 v. GirlsDoPorn.com, et al. She was featured in the documentary Netizens, and her life and work is the basis for an upcoming, fictional legal procedural television show.
