{"product_id":"what-we-talk-about-when-sohaila-abdulali-9781620974742","title":"What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Rape\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eJill Soloway\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 activist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e op-ed about healing from rape that was widely circulated. Now, Abdulali has written \u003cem\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Rape\u003c\/em\u003e--a thoughtful, generous, unflinching look at rape and rape culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Rape\u003c\/em\u003e is a book for this #MeToo and #TimesUp age that will stay with readers--men and women alike--for a long, long time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sohaila Abdulali\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620974746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620974742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2018 pg. 37","brand":"Sohaila Abdulali","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049106272511,"sku":"9781620974742","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c9c95e8-57c4-41bd-abf0-c520e4fc9a0a.jpg?v=1684999665","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-we-talk-about-when-sohaila-abdulali-9781620974742","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}