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One Night - Realities of Rape (Paperback)
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One Night - Realities of Rape (Paperback)
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One night, anthropologist Cathy Winkler awoke from a deep sleep to
discover a rapist standing by her bed. For the rest of that night,
she lived a woman's worst nightmare as she was repeatedly raped and
beaten by the stranger. The event changed her life into something
resembling a Kafka novel: a justice system that bungled the case
then blamed the victim, a social service system that provided no
services or comfort, uneasy and awkward friends, exploitative
media, and insensitive university administrators and colleagues.
The pain of those four hours was dwarfed by the frustration of her
decade-long fight to find the rapist and bring him to justice,
ultimately through one of the first successful uses of DNA evidence
in a rape case. Winkler, a brilliant observer and ethnographer,
chronicles this struggle here including her own growing awareness
of her power to stare down district attorneys, to use the media to
her own ends (including segments on 48 Hours and Court TV), and,
ultimately through her persistence, to put the rapist behind bars
for life. As a story of triumph over adversity, One Night is an
inspirational work. And it provides a model of how researchers can
turn the lens inward and incisively examine ourselves and our own
world.
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