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Loading... Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violenceby Anita Hill
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  MontzaleeW | Oct 12, 2022 |   Many things have changed since then, particularly the MeToo movement. Workplaces, schools, and the military have taken action to define and reduce the number of incidents but the results have not been consistent. BELIEVING addresses denial, workplaces, institutions, politics, victim shaming, politics, backlash. It points out problems with it like the sexual harassment rules not covering businesses with fewer than 15 employees which especially affects women in small towns. Also, lawsuits are costly and the short statute of limitations (180-300 days depending on the jurisdiction). There are some chilling examples: e.g., a female highschool student who was being pressured by a male student who kept trying to get her to meet him in a bathroom. She told a counselor. The counselor said they should set a trap and catch him in the act. She followed the instructions. She went into a restroom with him. By the time the counselor got there, she had been raped. Hill does a thorough job explaining the state of sexual harassment experiences and laws to protect women (and men, at times). Unfortunately it lumps different types of acts together. She equates Bill Clintonâs sexual affair with a 21-year-old intern who came on to him with Donald Trumpâs bragging about assaulting women with Brett Kavanaughâs rape of a college student with Joe Biden getting close to a woman and making her uncomfortable and putting his hand on her shoulder. The book is well-researched, documented, and, sadly, timely. (  ) Judiex | Oct 28, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
"From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors. In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and power, are as urgent today as they were when she first testified. Believing is a story of America's three decades long reckoning with gender violence, one that offers insights into its roots, and paths to creating dialogue and substantive change. It is a call to action that offers guidance based on what this brave, committed fighter has learned from a lifetime of advocacy and her search for solutions to a problem that is still tearing America apart. We once thought gender-based violence--from casual harassment to rape and murder--was an individual problem that affected a few; we now know it's cultural and endemic, and happens to our acquaintances, colleagues, friends and family members, and it can be physical, emotional and verbal. Women of color experience sexual harassment at higher rates than White women. Street harassment is ubiquitous and can escalate to violence. Transgender and nonbinary people are particularly vulnerable. Anita Hill draws on her years as a teacher, legal scholar, and advocate, and on the experiences of the thousands of individuals who have told her their stories, to trace the pipeline of behavior that follows individuals from place to place: from home to school to work and back home. In measured, clear, blunt terms, she demonstrates the impact it has on every aspect of our lives, including our physical and mental wellbeing, housing stability, political participation, economy and community safety, and how our descriptive language undermines progress toward solutions. And she is uncompromising in her demands that our laws and our leaders must address the issue concretely and immediately"-- No library descriptions found. |
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By Anita Hill
This is a book I couldn't read all at once or my blood pressure would go up! It angers me that not too much has changed in the last 30 years.
She writes very eloquently for such a harsh subject. She gave so many examples that will really stick with me, if I want them too or not! đ
I didn't realize just how much there is to say about gender violence or how it effects daily life until reading this. I guess I did but really didn't sit and think it through. She is very passionate about the subject and briefly goes over her ordeal too.
I think Biden needs to expand the Supreme Court and ask Anita Hill and Obama. Hill because of the oral lynching she received from the committee Biden was part of in 1991. (Pretty similar to good ol boy Brett's selection committee.) Plus that would really mess with Thomas!đ Obama because he is fair regardless of political side.
If the women's movement, metoo movement, or any sexual or gender violence interests you than this is your book. (