Fearless: The Complete Personal Safety Guide for Women

By Paul Henry Danylewich

"Fearless: The Complete Personal Safety Guide for Women" is an extensive manual that offers a unique balance of practical advice on personal safety and an array of self-defence strategies, with an academic exploration of the psychology of offenders and victims. While presenting the reader with detailed self-defence material, including strategies for safety awareness and effective physical and non-physical resistance techniques, Paul Henry Danylewich investigates the social patterns of sexual assault and domestic violence using the material from interviews with 50 sex offenders, as well as the resources provided by law enforcement agencies, rape crisis centres, hospitals, and public safety organizations in North America.

Written by the director of White Tiger Street Defense, a group specializing in safety issues for women, "Fearless" offers clear instruction on physical and non-physical self-defence strategies. The two principles guiding this manual are that women in general are not conditioned or socialized adequately to defend themselves in threatening situations, and, more generally, that knowledge is power. Danylewich offers prevention tips to reduce the individual's chances of becoming the target of an aggressor and debunks myths surrounding sexual assault. He describes in detail the techniques for reducing the likelihood of being victimized in various circumstances, including: dating relationships and parties, while driving alone, working late, walking alone, taking public transit, and at home when answering the phone or the front door. To help women learn these easy and effective techniques, the guide is packed with over 140 action photo illustrations.

"Fearless" contains information every woman should have to help her live more safely and with less fear. This guide is a complete personal safety manual that can empower women with the resources necessary to help recognise and avoid potentially violent situations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802081126
• ISBN13: 9780802081124
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Essential Life Skill In Today's World

"Learning ways to reduce the risk of violence can have an empowering effect on us all. The grim reality is that assault prevention is an ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILL IN TODAY'S WORLD....." [from the book of back cover]

Smash the Offender into the Dirt

As a second degree black belt, I know that it's training that matters. If your attacked, the first few seconds make all the difference. 1400 techniques bring you to the point of knowing the consequences of failure. It may be one technique in grained in your mind and body giving you a chance to escape. It will take every ounce of strength and courage for you to survive. "Fearless", opens your mind to the world of martial arts and street smarts. When two tigers fight one dies. If you learn one thing from this book it should be "Be Aware". Self safety is watching for signals, being aware of your risks, knowing the mind of the predator, and avoiding danger. Paul Danylewich book "Fearless" vividly wakes you up to the dangers on the street and violence that can happen within your home. Awareness means adding lights around your house, organize community watch groups, being assertive in meeting people (get to know at little about everyone new in your community), knowing escape routes to your safe room (reinforcing the structure), entering your home, answering the door, not being liberal in giving out private information on the phone, watching for behavior associated with a violent person, approaching your parked car, forcing bystanders involvement with an attack is underway, not getting out of the car if rearended, not getting out of the car with pulled over if isolated, running in pairs, personal safety on the elevator, taking money out of the atm, awareness about rape, things to watch for when you meet someone new, watching out for male pressure, the myths about rape, the dangers of drinking too much.Assertive communication is the first line of defense. Offenders are motivated to control their victims. Its your job to prevent them from gaining this control. Strategies include: passive resistence, assertive strategies, manipulation and negotiation, and physical resistence.After nine years of MA study three fundamental stand out: palm strikes, elbow strike, and eye gouges are devastating. Controlling the offender to the ground puts him in the most vulnerable position possible because he can be stomped to death or permanently maimed. Chokes and submission techniques are effective, but stomps are deadly. Danylewich demostrate a series of physical resistence techniques: basic stances, palm strikes, palm heel, finger claws to the face, eye gouges, groin grab, forearm groin strike, and frontal and back elbow strikes. Groin kicks can sometimes make the opponent madder, instead kick the knee cap. Longer distance weapons are explored, such as, front snap kick, side kick, and back kick. The author effectively illustrates and describes techniques against front and back grabs, chokes, and hugs. ...

A Great Book for Women

This is really a wonderful book on how to protect yourself from violence. The author is really in touch with what women need to learn. FEARLESS is based on the idea that " Knowledge is Power" More women need to realize that they too can learn to recognize how violence can happen to them on a date, on the street, or anywhere else. I saw a terrific mini workshop that the author did at the public library in Cornwall, Ontario - and it was an eye-opener. I think every public, school and college library should have this book available for their female students. I think it can help keep them safe. Half of the book focuses on prevention and awarness strategies, while the later half deals with resistance techniques that are simple and easy to use. Way to Go!! If anyone is interested, I found the authors web-site... We need to get this type of program in our high school today!!!

One Great Book!

This is one great book that should be read by women everywhere. It contains easy to learn self defense techniques while offering solid prevention advice. FEARLESS is based on information from various sources including material from police agencies and rape crisis centers. In addition, the author interviewed rapists in Vermont and New York prisons, he also interviewed many rape victims. Some of their stories are in the book. This is a very comprehensive book. FEARLESS easily outdoes all other women's self defense books. It contains info that every women should know.

The Best available Self Defense Book for Women

Fearless is simply the best self defense book for women on the market today. It offers a comprehensive approach to help women recognize potentially dangerous situations in the initial phases of a confrontation. It offers practical advice concerning physical and non-physical self defense instruction that is practical and easy to learn. But the book goes beyond that as a part of FEARLESS offers prevention advice which can reduce victimization in various circumstances including dating relationships and party safety, working late or alone, walking alone , car safety and much more.As someone who works in this profession, I wish FEARLESS could be read by every young women. It certainly can help empower young women to stay safe in a progressively violent world. Also, the author is a very skilled and dynamic presenter. I had an opportunity to see one of his lectures in New England last fall.