Street Smart Safety for Women, Laura Frombach
Street Smart Safety for Women, Laura Frombach
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Street Smart Safety for Women
Your Guide to Defensive Living

Author: Laura Frombach, Joy Farrow

Narrator: Laura Frombach

Unabridged: 9 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/12/2023


Synopsis

Violence against women is a global health issue. The threats women face today are unparalleled and more dangerous than ever before.

Women have been culturally trained to discount one of their greatest protections—safety intuition. As women, it is so ingrained in us to attend to everyone else, including strangers on the street, before we listen to ourselves, that we have lost touch with our innate ability to often detect dangerous situations. As the result, we are left generally defenseless to recognize predators who manipulate our natural compassion, to our own detriment. This inability to listen to ourselves directly affects our personal safety, and data shows that attacks on women continue to escalate daily across the world, inside and outside of the home. Though everyone is talking about how women continue to be less safe, few offer solutions. Women are terrified, and they are looking for answers.

In Street Smart Safety for Women, retired Deputy Sheriff Joy Farrow and technologist Laura Frombach, herself a survivor of a violent household, draw on their experiences both personal and professional to provide those answers. The book educates women in personal safety, showing them a defensive living strategy and how to trust in themselves, which can reduce their probability of becoming a victim of a crime.

About Laura Frombach

Laura Frombach was introduced to technology in the US Army, working on Pershing nuclear missiles. She has spent much of her career as a technologist and engineer with IBM, HP, FedEx, Coca- Cola Enterprises, Lenovo, and others. A turning point in Laura's life was the "aha" moment when she correlated her mother's mental illness to domestic violence. She speaks on behalf of local domestic violence shelters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by J on April 16, 2024

Street Smart Safety for Women Your Guide to Defensive Living by Joy Farrow; Laura Frombach Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this eARC. 📚 In their insightful and empowering book, "Street Smart Safety for Women", authors Joy Farrow and Laura Frombach provide a comprehensive guide to self-protecti......more

Goodreads review by Uma The Tigress on February 09, 2024

"Street Smart Safety for Women: Your Guide to Defensive Living" is the first book of its kind that I have read, and I'm glad that I read it. It is a book written by two astute women, and is dedicated to female empowerment. In reality, women rarely take the time to think about their own safety. We sh......more

Goodreads review by Sudipta on January 04, 2024

Before I start my review, I must mention that I am a bully survivor. I have been bullied in schools, college, and even at my last workplace. But then, I didn't have this book. I was blinded "in entre chien et loup", the French word for Twilight, I learned from Joy. I missed multiple red flags. I con......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on August 30, 2023

While I learned some from this book, I found it to be a little wordy and less of an actual street-smart guide and more of an “here are all the ways the people you know are out to get you” kind of book. I wish that there were some concrete tips in each chapter or at the end of the book, which would h......more

Goodreads review by Louise on September 29, 2023

What happens when a pair of street smart, experienced women get together to share their insights, expertise, and advice with other women? Joy Farrow and Laura Frombach have done just that in their excellent STREET SMARTS SAFETY FOR WOMEN. While I've long prided myself on superior "spide-y sense" and......more