Elizabeth Powell, M.S., M.A.

Books & writing

Works for Adults

Published Op-Eds

March 8, 2018 — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Before You Report Sexual Misconduct

For victims, filter your allegations through these steps before reporting; for young males, we must contradict the dysfunctional messages from the media so they will not become perpetrators.

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May 28, 2017 — Louisville Courier-Journal

Let's Hear it for the Hillbillies

This was my answer to the sad, abusive background that J.D. Vance projected onto Appalachians.

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Books

Don't Be Mad When I Ask About COVID book cover
New E-Book

e-Book © 2022, 1st edition

Don't Be Mad When I Ask About COVID: Finding the Right Words

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Award-Winning

e-Book © 2013, 3rd edition

Talking Back to Sexual Pressure

Previous Winner of the Midwest Independent Publisher's Association Award for Excellence, Best Self-Help Book of the Year

  • Specific verbal skills showing how to assert and protect your 15 sexual rights.
  • Options for readers to explain sexual limits and respond to harassment.
  • Exercises for helping readers examine thinking patterns that may make them sexually vulnerable, and how to replace that with healthy self-talk.
  • Changes that men can make to prevent sexual exploitation.
  • Information on how to recognize potential abusers such as acquaintance rapists and unethical helping professionals.
  • Clarification about the effects of alcohol and other risk-triggers on sexual behavior.
  • Reminders to protect sexual privacy in cyberspace.
  • Methods of responding to dysfunctional messages in the media.
  • Lists of helpful resources for all of the above sexual concerns.
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Other Publications

  • Sex on Your Terms (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1996). The 2nd Edition of Talking Back to Sexual Pressure, retitled by Allyn & Bacon.
  • "Personal Barriers to Academic Success," Journal of the Association for the Improvement of Community College Teaching, v. 16, (1995).
  • "I Thought You Didn't Mind," Transforming a Rape Culture, Ed. Emilie Buchwald et al, (Minneapolis: Milkweed Publications, 1995).
  • "The Luck of the Draw," Journal of the Association on Higher Education and Disability, v. 18, (1994).
  • "Avoiding Date Rape" (CompCare, 1993). Video training in sexual assertiveness skills for men and women. E. Powell, script writer and director.
  • Talking Back to Sexual Pressure, training practice workbook, (Minneapolis: CompCare, 1993).
  • Talking Back to Sexual Pressure (Minneapolis: Compcare, 1992), 1st Edition.
  • Video Review, "Balanced Living," Addiction and Recovery, March/April 1992.
  • "The Professor Wears a Turquoise Dress," op ed, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 1991.