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[Jessie Mindlin <>]

Recently I read and HIGHLY RECOMMEND “Lived Through This” last month – the new book by Anne Ream. Below is a summary I pulled off the Random House website. I read the book in 2 nights because I couldn’t put it down. It was SO well written and compelling. Best of all was how uplifting it felt. I fell asleep happy – not because of what the survivors had experienced of course but because of the humor and the strength and the great writing. I loved it and think it would be helpful to survivors as well as their friends, partners, family members, etc. - Jessie

 

In these pages you’ll meet a community of rape and sexual violence survivors who have been shaped, but refuse to be defined, by their histories of violence. They are brave, and they are outspoken—but, mostly, they are hopeful.
 
From its insistently resolute opening essay to its final, deeply moving story, Lived Through This is a book that defies conventional wisdom about life in the wake of sexual violence, while putting names and faces on an issue that too often leaves its victims silent and invisible.
 
Part personal history of Anne Ream’s own experience rebuilding her life after violence, part memoir of a multi-country, multi-year journey spent listening to survivors, Lived Through This is at once deeply personal and resolutely political. In these pages we are introduced to, among others, the women of Atenco, Mexico, victims of rape and political torture who are speaking out about gender-based violence in Latin America; Beth Adubato, a woman who was raped by a popular athlete and then denied justice when her college failed to fully investigate the attack; and Jenny and Steve Bush, a rape survivor and her father who are working together to share Jenny’s testimony of surviving rape at the hands of a veteran in order to alter the US military’s response to sexual violence committed by those in its ranks.  
 
Writing with compassion, candor, and, at times, even much-needed humor, Ream brings us a series of stories and essays that are as insistent as they are incisive. Considered individually, her profiles are profoundly moving, and even inspiring. Considered collectively, they are a window into a world where sexual violence is more commonplace than most of us imagine.
 
The accomplished and courageous women and men profiled in Lived Through This are, in the words of the author, “living reminders of all that remains possible in the wake of the terrible.”

 

From: Stephanie Jones [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:50 AM
To: ''
Subject: Films/Books for Survivors

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

I am currently working to compile a list of books/films to purchase for our small library and would greatly appreciate any recommendations that would benefit survivors of SA, DV and Stalking or support books for significant others/parents etc. I look forward to hearing suggestions and am happy to share the list after it is compiled.

 

Thank you so much,

 

Stephanie Jones, MA

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Campus Advocacy, Resources & Education

Women's Center Programming

Women, Gender, & Sexual Equity Programs

University of California, Santa Barbara

1220 Student Resource Building

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7190

805-893-2933

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