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Every 90 Seconds - Our Common Cause Ending Violence Against Women (Hardcover)
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Every 90 Seconds - Our Common Cause Ending Violence Against Women (Hardcover)
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An urgent examination of how violence against women is inextricably
linked to other issues that stoke our greatest passions. Every 90
seconds a woman is sexually assaulted. In that same minute and a
half, another is a victim of domestic violence at the hands of a
current or former intimate partner. Every sixteen hours, one of
those intimate partners shoots and kills a woman. Nearly two in ten
women are stalked, while one in sixteen is raped during her first
sexual experience. Despite these jaw-dropping statistics,
collectively we are well practiced at seeing such acts as someone
else's problem. And yet, violence against women is tangled up with
the most frequently discussed and debated issues of our time:
healthcare and education access, immigration, gun policies,
economic security, and criminal justice reform-issues that impact
us all, nearly every day. In Every 90 Seconds, Anne P. DePrince
argues that to end violence against women, we must fundamentally
redefine how we engage with it-starting by abandoning the idea that
violence is a problem involving only those who abuse or are abused.
Instead, DePrince illuminates how violence against women is
inextricably linked to other issues that stoke our greatest
passions. For instance, each time a woman requires emergency
medical attention as a result of violence and abuse, our
overburdened healthcare system bears an entirely preventable cost.
Meanwhile, the threat of violence is a significant cause of
pressure on the US southern border, driving women and their
families to seek safety far from home. Violence against women also
takes a stunning toll on the US economy by contributing to
widespread poverty. Drawing on these and other complex examples,
DePrince builds the case that this very complexity offers an
opportunity for mobilizing ordinary people to work to stop violence
against women in a way we never have before. DePrince's call to
action arises out of the reality that when we address violence
against women, we can make progress on a range of other significant
issues that we care deeply about too.
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