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001			on1112261739
003			OCoLC
005			20200804132823.0
008			200309s2020 nyu b 000 0aeng
010			_a 2019060188
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dSINLB _dIH9 _dYDX _dNFG
020			_a9781250255631 _qhardcover
020			_a1250255635 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1112261739
042			_apcc
092			_a362.883 _bB785
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBowdler, Michelle, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIs rape a crime? : _ba memoir, an investigation, and a manifesto / _cMichelle Bowdler.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFlatiron Books, _c[2020]
300			_a288 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [273]-288).
520			_a"Alice Sebold meets Roxane Gay in Michelle Bowdler's literary debut, telling her story of rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society's most serious crimes goes largely uninvestigated. The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone. Award-winning writer and public health executive Michelle Bowdler's memoir indicts how sexual violence has been addressed for decades in our society, asking whether rape is a crime given that it is the least reported major felony, least successfully prosecuted, and fewer than 3% of rapists ever spend a day in jail. Cases are closed before they are investigated and DNA evidence sits for years untested and disregarded. Rape in this country is not treated as a crime of brutal violence but as a parlor game of he said / she said. It might be laughable if it didn't work so much of the time. Given all this, it seems fair to ask whether rape is actually a crime. In 1984, the Boston Sexual Assault Unit was formed as a result of a series of break-ins and rapes that terrorized the city, of which Michelle's own horrific rape was the last. Twenty years later, after a career of working with victims like herself, Michelle decides to find out what happened to her case and why she never heard from the police again after one brief interview. An expert blend of memoir and cultural investigation, Michelle's story is a rallying cry to reclaim our power and right our world"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aBowdler, Michelle.
650		0	_aRape. _935755
650		0	_aRape _xLaw and legislation.
650		0	_aRape victims. _9142999
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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