Thoughtful, provocative and intelligent, this game-changing book looks at sexual assault and the global discourse on rape from the viewpoint of a survivor, writer, counsellor and activist.Sohaila Abdulali was the first Indian rape survivor to speak out about her experience. Gang-raped as a teenager in Mumbai 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 fatal 2012 Delhi rape and the global outcry that followed.Drawing on three decades of grappling with the issue personally and professionally, and on her work with hundreds of other survivors, she explores what we think about rape and what we say. She also explores what we don't say, and asks pertinent questions about who gets raped and who rapes, about consent and desire, about redemption and revenge, and about how we raise our sons. Most importantly, she asks: does rape always have to be a life-defining event, or is it possible to recover joy?
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Disclaimer
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Who am I to talk?
- 3: Shut up or die, crazy bitch
- 4: Totally different, exactly the same
- 5: Yes, no, maybe
- 6: What did you expect?
- 7: Oh, please
- 8: How to save a life
- 9: The Abdulali guidelines for saving a rape survivor’s life
- 10: The official version
- 11: Your love is killing me
- 12: A brief pause for horror
- 13: A bagful of dentures
- 14: Teflon Man
- 15: Keys to the kingdom
- 16: A brief pause for fury
- 17: Rx—polite conversation
- 18: All in the family
- 19: A brief pause for confusion
- 20: Stealing freedom, stealing joy
- 21: Lead weights for drowning
- 22: A brief pause for ennui
- 23: The quality of mercy
- 24: Your rape is worse than mine
- 25: Good girls don’t
- 26: Rape prevention for beginners
- 27: Boys will …
- 28: A brief pause for terror
- 29: The full catastrophe
- Index
- Original sources and permissions
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright
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