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Lela Mailman, the mother of Melanie James, who went missing, embraces her attorney, Darlene Gomez, in Window Rock, Arizona, on January 13 2024. Photographs by Sharon Chischilly for The New Yorker
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Anxiety over the threat of sexual violence has strong links to women's poor mental health. It's not just doctors who should consider this, writes Jane Gilmore.
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New figures obtained by the BBC show that in the past four years almost 1,000 reported rapes have been dropped and marked "no crime". (RT @newsaboutwomen: Scotland: Rape reports marked as 'no crime'.
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Roxane Gay is a writer of extreme empathy. Her fiction and essays elicit as much shared understanding as they give. Her new memoir, Hunger, is the story of being a physical woman in a physical world that has been shaped for so long by men. And I suspect that every woman who reads Hunger will recognize herself in it. For men who read the book, it will be more of a travelogue. Vade mecum.
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August 10, 2017 5:56 AM
From the essay-review:
Hunger is [...] thoughtful reportage about a country we pretend we don’t know, one where women struggle every day for dignity, safety, and simple elbow room.
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Back in April, the Guardian dropped an apparent literary bombshell—new letters had been discovered from the poet Sylvia Plath, alleging horrific physical abuse
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August 2, 2017 7:09 AM
Emily Van Duyne is assistant professor of Writing at Stockton University. A poet, essayist, & critic, her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, So To Speak, Diagram, ROAR, and many others. She is at work on a memoir, and a book about Sylvia Plath. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
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