[NIFL-WOMENLIT:1862] Re: reactions to rape

From: Arlene Calvo (calvoae@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 12:59:20 EST


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>From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu>
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>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


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