I Never Called It Rape Updated Edit..., Robin Warshaw
I Never Called It Rape Updated Edit..., Robin Warshaw
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I Never Called It Rape - Updated Edition
The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape

Author: Robin Warshaw

Narrator: Eileen Stevens, Gloria Steinem, Wheatley Tanner Letters LLC

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/26/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Featuring a new preface by feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and a new foreword by Salamishah Tillet, PhD, Rutgers University Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing“Essential. . . . It is nonpolemical, lucid, and speaks eloquently not only to the victims of acquaintance rape but to all those caught in its net.”— Philadelphia InquirerWith the advent of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, and almost daily new reports about rape, both on and off campuses, Robin Warshaw’s I Never Called It Rape is even more relevant today than when it was first published in 1988. The sad truth is that statistics on date rape have not changed in more than thirty years. That our culture enables rape is not just shown by the numbers: the outbreak of complaints against alleged rapists from Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein to Matt Lauer and President Donald Trump has further amplified this horrifying reality.With more than 80,000 copies sold to date, I Never Called It Rape serves as a guide to understanding rape as a cultural phenomenon—providing women and men with strategies to address our rape endemic. It gives survivors the context and resources to help them heal from their experiences, and pulls the wool from all our eyes regarding the pervasiveness of rape and sexual assault in our society.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Robin Warshaw

Robin Warshaw writes on social issues, medicine and health. In writing I Never Called It Rape, she used pseudonyms for the many women who shared their stories but wrote openly about her own acquaintance rape for the first time. She has never regretted that decision and is grateful to the women (and some men) who have reached out over the years to tell her how the book helped them. Warshaw is a contributing writer for Living Beyond Breast Cancer and writes for other nonprofits and publications. She is a member of the Authors Guild, American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Association of Health Care Journalists. Her work has received several national awards.

About Wheatley Tanner Letters LLC

Salamishah Tillet is a rape survivor, activist, and feminist writer. She is the cofounder of A Long Walk Home, a nonprofit that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women, and the writer of the award-winning Story of a Rape Survivor, a performance that chronicles her pathway to healing after being sexually assaulted in college. She is the faculty director of the New Arts Jus- tice Initiative at Express Newark and the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shanice on November 28, 2014

'I Never Called It Rape' by Robin Warshaw was a seminal book of it's time, and for that it must be given credit. 'I Never Called It Rape' contributed to a process of changing the very cultural lens through which the most common form of rape - that between people who are known to each other - is view......more

Goodreads review by erin on May 27, 2012

Robin Warshaw clearly outlines date/acquaintance rape in this book, funded by the Center for Antisocial and Violent Behavior of the National Institute of Mental Health and executed under the banner of Ms. Magazine. While a bit dated (published first in 1988), this book captures the emergence of date......more

Goodreads review by Gina on August 06, 2018

24 years later, it's disappointing how timely this feels. And I do wonder if the survey were taken again if we would find that some of the numbers have improved, but there is still too much evidence that too many men do not see that women should be able to control access to their bodies. The material......more

Goodreads review by Marina on March 26, 2016

Quick, easy read, but very heavy. I appreciate how many stories this book had, making the content very accessible and understandable. You can read rape theory all you want, but it doesn't click until you can imagine the details of the situation unfolding and realize situations in your circles where......more

Goodreads review by Robin on November 30, 2018

This took longer than it should have to finish, I guess because I didn't connect with the author’s writing. I found her language polarizing, problematic, and patronizing. For instance, there’s a part where the author mentions that most women think of rapists as strangers that are “black, Hispanic, o......more

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