ISBN: 9781620974742
Editorial: New
Autor: Abdulali, Sohaila
Año de edición: 2018
N° Paginas: 224
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Biografía del autor Sohaila Abdulali was born in Mumbai and moved to the United States with her family when she was a teenager. Since then, she has lived in both countries. She has a BA from Brandeis University in economics and sociology and an MA from Stanford University in communication. Her undergraduate thesis dealt with the socio-economics of rape in India. She is the author of two novels as well as children's books and short stories. Her writing frequently appears in The Guardian and other newspapers. She lives in New York with her husband and their daughter. 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 SolowayIn 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 activistAfter 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. Críticas Praise for What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018Brilliant, necessary reading on the ways we talk--and, more importantly, don't talk--about rape and rape culture.--HelloGigglesThere should be many more books like Sohaila Abdulali's What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape. . . . It's essential reading.--Washington City PaperChallenging, nuanced and altogether triumphant.--The Rumpus It's that international conversation: the global analysis of rape, the globalization of the #MeToo movement, that makes Abdulali's book especially timely, and somewhat unique.--BustlePowerful but accessibly written.--LongreadsA candid, straightforward manifesto on sexual assault, rape culture, and where to go from here. . . . Abdulali achieves extraordinary success with this compulsively readable and effortlessly diverse book no doubt guaranteed to become an important part of the canon on gender studies and sexual assault.--Library Journal (starred review)An important book working towards an important goal: meaningful and thoughtful discussion of a taboo subject.--BooklistAbdulali brings precision, clarity, and style to her exploration of a topic often treated as more confusing than it is. . . . She approaches debates about consent, responsibility, motive, honor, and prevention with de
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Abdulali, Sohaila
- Editorial: New
- N° Paginas: 224
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
