Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g0FHlx016983; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:47:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:47:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <sc4422d1.007@langate.gsu.edu> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1861] reactions to rape X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_48153D31.B2D3BDC1" X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.6.1 Status: O Content-Length: 4380 Lines: 106 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Andrea, A comment and a question: 1. Susan Brison writes : "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." Jenny Horsman refers to this type of thinking a lot. We tend to deny violence-and that is one of the problems-we make is seem so extraordinary-when unfortunately, at least right now, it is so ordinary. In other words-so many of us have experienced different forms of violence and we are made to feel like the "other" when in reality, we really aren't. The denial facilitates the continuation of the violence. 2. You write: "There doesn't seem to be a social category to fit in other than victim or survivor." I guess I am lost here. What other types of social categories are you thinking of? Daphne >>> AWilder106@aol.com 01/14/02 08:42PM >>> 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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