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 g0FHxK017424; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:59:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:59:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <F17qnTJhrkVlaNEbEBn0001cbdf@hotmail.com> 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: "Arlene Calvo" <calvoae@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1862] Re: reactions to rape X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2347 Lines: 58 how do you unsubscribe to the listserv? >From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> >Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1861] reactions to rape >Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:47:26 -0500 (EST) > >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 Arlene Calvo, Ph.D.(c), MPH, CHES Material Development Specialist Syndistar, Inc. New Orleans, LA 504-733-9887, Ext. 244 _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
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