Rape, incest, and battery change a woman's life forever. Some women
never rise above the pain, the rage, the humiliation, while others
seem to transcend the violence and rebuild their lives. What
distinguishes those who transcend the violation? Courage--the
courage to face their past and, sometimes, to put it into words. In
1989 Miriam Harris was serving as project coordinator for the
Battered Woman's Emergency Intervention Project at Dallas's
Parkland Hospital. As part of her duties, she taught a
journal-writing class at a women's shelter and found that the women
she helped to express their pain, rage, and frustration underwent a
catharsis of the soul, but, more importantly, understood the heroic
enterprise of regaining self-power. "The writing cure," as she
calls it, builds on the "talking cure" that originated with Sigmund
Freud's famous patient, Anna O. According to Harris, a woman
discovers a new identity by becoming the "subject who writes"
rather than the victim who waits in silence. Knowing that the
problem of violence against women is universal in our world, Harris
put out a call to professional writers, women in shelters, and
scholars in academe. She advertised in literary journals and
newsletters, asking for autobiographical writings by women who
survived any kind of violence and abuse. Rape, Incest, Battery
resulted from her long process of collecting, selecting, and
editing. Divided into seven sections, this anthology is arranged in
the pattern a journey might take: "Silent Woman Speaks" redefines
the events of the past; "Thoughts after Rape" explores the
continuum of sexual violence in our culture; "Dark Pages" lights
the dark of childhood, too often revealing abuse and incest;
"Grinding Axes" calls attention to the price women pay for
accepting society's definitions of gender; "Behind His Walls"
explores imprisonment, both actual and metaphorical; "Regeneration"
captures the moment of rebirth; and "She Said NO!" affirms female
strength. A woman is raped every three minutes; a woman is beaten
in her home every fifteen seconds; one of four women in emergency
rooms is "battered." Over four million women are beaten annually by
current and former male partners, and between two thousand and four
thousand are murdered. But this book goes beyond the overwhelming
magnitude of the problem to celebrate the images of heroic women
fighting for their rights, risking their lives, rescuing their
children from a violent family life, testifying, speaking out, and
seeking justice when they are beaten, raped, or otherwise violated.
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