Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape - Hardcover

Pierce-Baker, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393046613 ISBN 13: 9780393046618

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 1999

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Reseña del editor:

Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race. The book opens with the author's own account of being raped in her middle-class home outside Philadelphia. It continues, telling of the author's family's response, the ordeal of going to court and the desperate attempts of the members of the family to mend their lives. In the course of her work as a volunteer for Women Organized Against Rape, Pierce-Baker collected stories of other rape victims. The middle section of the book provides the testimonies of ten "silent survivors" - women who were sexually molested by male relatives during childhood, subjected to "acquaintance rape" or, like the author, assaulted by strangers. The final section gives voice to men who have supported the women they love who have been raped. These narratives are combined to tell of black women's survival after sexual violence.

Biografía del autor:

Charlotte Pierce-Baker is a professor of women's studies at Duke University. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0393046613
• ISBN 13: 9780393046618
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288