[NIFL-WOMENLIT:1859] Re: 4 months

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Daphne,

Please excuse me for departing from your conversational entree--I have just 
finished skimming "Violence and the Remaking of the Self,"  by Susan J. 
Brison in "The Chronicle Review" of "The Chronicle of Higher Education" a 
professional newspaper that comes out weekly.  A book will follow in a month 
or so.  Susan Brison is a professor of philosophy, and she reports many 
incidents, knew to her, that have painful meaning for me and I expect would 
for other raped women.  One example:  "My sense of unreality was fed by the 
massive denial of those around me--a reaction that is an almost universal 
response to rape, I learned."  

i still get that reaction, which means I don't mention this fact much/ever.  
There doesn't seem to be a social category to fit in other than victim or 
survivor.  What have literacy teachers found?  How do you handle this 
problem?  Have you found solutions?

Andrea



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