Transforming A Rape Culture

Author's Bio:

Emilie Buchwald is the publisher of Milkweed Editions.

Pamela Fletcher has taught at the University of Minnesota, Carleton College, and The Loft Writer's Center. Her essays have appeared in The Utne Reader, Colors, and The Hungry Mind Review.

Martha Roth is cofounder of Hurricane Alice: A Feminist Quarterly. She is the author of a novel, Goodness and Arousal: Bodies and Pleasures

Quotes:

“Compassionate, constructive and non-polarizing proposals for changing a society that . . . accepts and fosters sexual violence and the fear of violence.”—The New York Times Book Review

“This [book] will provoke and enlighten and disturb everyone who reads it, and is must reading of a very high order.”—Hungry Mind Review

“Transforming a Rape Culture digs at the fabric of American society to describe, analyze and pose solutions to the porblem of mass sexual violence.”—St. Cloud State University Women's Center

"The best comprehensive book on the social movement against violence"—Cynthia Daniels, Rutgers University, New Jersey

"The book represents a range of views, and students really want to know what they can do. . . . It helps students to envision themselves as agents of change"—Maureen Reddy, Rhode Island College

"Strategies for change and ways students can become active ."—Lin Huff-Corzine, Kansas State University

"Here is a profoundly feminist book that focuses on positive action. . . . The overall emphasis on a different and better future."—The Women's Review of Books

"Covers a variety of personal, social and activist issues. It is attentive to race and class as well as gender issues.”—Laura Sanchez, University of Nebraska