Synopses & Reviews
Twenty contributors consider violence in the works of suchacclaimed writers as Adrienne Rich, Harriet Jacobs, Virgnia Woolf, and Audre Lorde, and such too little known authors as Senegal's Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall, Lebanon's Etel Adnan, and the Jamaican Sistren Collective. The cross-cultural rangeof works encompasses many forms of violence, overt and covert: sexual abuse, thecolonial experience, the ravages of cancer, hostility between mothers and daughters, warfare. The contributors look at the variety of responses to violence and addressthe costs of breaking cultural taboos against speaking out as well as the strategieswomen use to violate social expectations without forfeiting the chance to be heard.They show that th differences in women's lives and responses to violence can help usbegin to envision a world in which violence is no longeracceptable.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-343) and index.