What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is brilliant, frank,
empowering, and urgently necessary. Sohaila Abdulali has created a
powerful tool for examining rape culture and language on the
individual, societal, and global level that everyone can benefit
from reading. --Jill Soloway In the tradition of Rebecca Solnit, a
beautifully written, deeply intelligent, searingly honest--and
ultimately hopeful--examination of sexual assault and the global
discourse on rape told through the perspective of a survivor,
writer, counselor, and activist After surviving gang-rape at
seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the
deafening silence that followed and wrote a fiery piece about the
perception of rape--and rape victims--for a women's magazine.
Thirty years later, with no notice, her article reappeared and went
viral in the wake of the 2012 fatal gang-rape in New Delhi,
prompting her to write a New York Times op-ed about healing from
rape that was widely circulated. Now, Abdulali has written What We
Talk About When We Talk About Rape--a thoughtful, generous,
unflinching look at rape and rape culture. 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. Abdulali also points
to the questions we don't talk about: Is rape always a
life-definining event? Is one rape worse than another? Is a world
without rape possible? What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
is a book for this #MeToo and #TimesUp age that will stay with
readers--men and women alike--for a long, long time.
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