Books Details
Author : Jessica Valenti Pages : pages Publisher : Seal Press Language :
eng ISBN-10 : B083YSVJWL ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
A powerful anthology of the most well-known feminist voices answering
the question: What if we believed women? And making the case that doing
so is the key to advancing the modern feminist moment From the leading
feminist editors of formative anthology Yes Means Yes, Believe Me brings
readers into the current landscape of the anti-sexual violence movement -
- and outlines how believing women is the critical foundation for future
progress. Essays include Jessica Valenti writing about how a woman's word
has never been enough in our country, giving context to the question of
why we don't believe women. Jaclyn Friedman draws that idea out further,
articulating the staggering public health costs of disbelieving women about
pain, about pleasure, about reproduction, and beyond. Other contributors
touch on: how believing women about on-and-offline violence would
transform the internet, how survivors who aren't white or straight
struggle to be taken seriously even within anti-rape advocacy;
