Books by Roxane Gay
“In the introduction to this collection of essays on rape culture, Roxanne recalls being gang raped when she was 12 years old and how she has learned to live with this trauma: ‘Those boys killed the girl I was, but they didn’t kill all of me.’ She writes about what is it like to live in a culture where it often seems like it is a question of when – not if – a woman will encounter sexual violence.” Read more...
The best books on Domestic Violence
Tanya Selvaratnam, Memoirist
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by Roxane Gay
New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay narrates the audiobook of her painful memoir, Hunger. Journalist Dana Schwartz told us it was a book “every young woman should read.”
Narrator: Roxane Gay
Length: 5 hours and 58 minutes
Interviews where books by Roxane Gay were recommended
The Best Books for Surviving Your Twenties, recommended by Dana Schwartz
The sheer number of choices facing us during our twenties can be overwhelming, says the memoirist and humorist Dana Schwartz. But there’s no need to panic. Here she selects five brilliant books which will help you navigate early adulthood.
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
by Evan Stark -
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Nobody's Victim: Fighting Harassment Online and Off
by Carrie Goldberg -
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence
by Gavin de Becker
The best books on Domestic Violence, recommended by Tanya Selvaratnam
The best books on Domestic Violence, recommended by Tanya Selvaratnam
Domestic violence has been declared a global crisis of pandemic proportions by the World Health Organisation. So why is it so often overlooked by law enforcement and under-reported by those who it affects? Tanya Selvaratnam, author of Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence, suggests a route forward as she highlights five of the best books on domestic abuse.
