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After Silence is Nancy Venable Raine's eloquent, profoundly moving response to her rapist's command to "shut up," a command that is so often echoed by society and internalized by rape victims. Beginning with her assault by a stranger in her home in 1985, Raine's riveting narrative of the ten-year aftermath of her rape brings to light the truth that survivors of traumatic experiences know - a trauma does not end when you find yourself alive.
Just as devastating as the rape itself was the silence that shrouded it, a silence born of her own feelings of shame as well as the incomprehension of others. Raine gives shape, form, and voice to the "unspeakable" and exposes the misconceptions and cruelties that surround this prevalent though hidden crime.
With formidable power and in intimate detail, she probes the long-term psychological and physiological aftereffects of rape, its tangled sexual confusions, the treatment of rape by the media and the legal and medical professions, and contemporary cultural views of victimhood. For anyone, female or male, who has suffered from or witnessed the shattering effects of rape, After Silence inspires and points the way to healing.
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Crimes against, Family relationships, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Violent crimes, Psychology, Rape victims, Violent crimes, Women, Family Relations, Rape, Rape trauma syndrome, Women, crimes against, nyt:crime-and-punishment=2014-10-12, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewedPeople
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After Silence
January 20, 2000, Virago Press Ltd
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1860496431 9781860496431
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After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back
August 3, 1999, Three Rivers Press
in English
0609804197 9780609804193
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After silence: rape and my journey back
1998, Crown Publishers
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0517706830 9780517706831
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"On an October afternoon in 1985 I was raped by a stranger who crept through the open back door of my apartment while I was taking out the trash."
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