WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RAPE

Un regard nécessaire sur le viol et la culture du viol pour en finir avec les tabous. Des interviews de survivantes à travers le monde viennent ponctuées la réflexion de l'autrice. Un essai important pour tous.

After surviving gang-rape at seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the deafening silence that followed. She wrote a fiery piece about the perception of rape and rape victims. Thirty years later, her article reappeared and went viral in the wake of the 2012 fatal gang-rape in New Delhi. She was then prompted 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.

Abdulali draws on her own experience, her work with survivors in a rape crisis center, and three decades of grappling with rape. She tackles some of our thorniest questions about rape, articulating the 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 that will stay with readers--men and women alike--for a long, long time.

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