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Book

What we talk about when we talk about rape

Call Number

  • 364.1532 A136 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : New Press, [2018]

Physical Description

226 pages ; 20 cm

Summary

"Drawing on her own experience, her work with hundreds of survivors as the head of a rape crisis center in Boston, and three decades of grappling with rape as a feminist intellectual and writer, Abdulali tackles some of our thorniest questions about rape, articulating the confounding way we account for who gets raped and why--and asking how we want to raise the next generation. In interviews with survivors from around the world we hear moving personal accounts of hard-earned strength, humor, and wisdom that collectively tell the larger story of what rape means and how healing can occur."--Dust jacket flap.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Who am I to talk?
  • Shut up or die, crazy bitch
  • Totally different, exactly the same
  • Yes, no, maybe
  • What did you expect?
  • Oh, please
  • How to save a life
  • The Abdulali guidelines for saving a rape survivor's life
  • The official version
  • Your love is killing me
  • A brief pause for horror
  • A bagful of dentures
  • Teflon Man
  • Keys to the kingdom
  • A brief pause for fury
  • Rx: polite conversation
  • All in the family
  • A brief pause for confusion
  • STealing freedom, stealing joy
  • Lead weights for drowning
  • A brief pause for ennui
  • The quality of mercy
  • Your rape is worse than mine
  • Good girls don't
  • Rape prevention for beginners
  • Boys will...
  • A brief pause for terror
  • The full catastrophe.

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