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What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
| Author:
Sohaila Abdulali
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Author:
Sohaila Abdulali
Language:
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Format:
Hardback
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Sohaila Abdulali was the first Indian survivor to speak out about rape. Gang-raped as a teenager in Bombay and indignant at the deafening silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for a women’s magazine questioning how we perceive rape and rape victims. Thirty years later, she saw the story go viral in the wake of the 2012 Delhi rape case ad the global outcry that followed.
Writing from the perspective of a survivor, writer, counselor, and activist, and drawing on three decades of grappling with the issue personally and professionally, as well as her work with hundreds of survivors, Abdulali looks at what we — women, men, politicians, teachers, writers, sex workers, feminists, sages, mansplainers, victims and families — think about rape and what we say.
She also explores what we don’t say. Is rape always a life-defining event? Does rape always symbolize something? Is rape worse than death? Is rape related to desire? Who gets raped? Is rape inevitable? Is one rape worse than the other? Who rapes? What is consent? How do you recover your sense of safety and joy? how do you raise sons? Who gets to judge?
This book is a literary, thoughtful, provocative and intelligent look at sexual assault and the global discourse on rape.
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Sohaila Abdulali was the first Indian survivor to speak out about rape. Gang-raped as a teenager in Bombay and indignant at the deafening silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for a women’s magazine questioning how we perceive rape and rape victims. Thirty years later, she saw the story go viral in the wake of the 2012 Delhi rape case ad the global outcry that followed.
Writing from the perspective of a survivor, writer, counselor, and activist, and drawing on three decades of grappling with the issue personally and professionally, as well as her work with hundreds of survivors, Abdulali looks at what we — women, men, politicians, teachers, writers, sex workers, feminists, sages, mansplainers, victims and families — think about rape and what we say.
She also explores what we don’t say. Is rape always a life-defining event? Does rape always symbolize something? Is rape worse than death? Is rape related to desire? Who gets raped? Is rape inevitable? Is one rape worse than the other? Who rapes? What is consent? How do you recover your sense of safety and joy? how do you raise sons? Who gets to judge?
This book is a literary, thoughtful, provocative and intelligent look at sexual assault and the global discourse on rape.
About Author
SOHAILA ADDULALI was born in Mumbai. She has a BA in economics and sociology from Brandeis University and an MA in communication from Stanford University.
She is the author of two novels (The Madwoman of Jogare and Year of the Tiger) as well as several children's books and short stories. She lives in New York with her family.
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