No Visible Bruises
内容简介
We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a “global epidemic.” In America, domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains locked in silence, even as its tendrils reach unseen into so many of our most pressing national issues, from our economy to our education system, from mass shootings to mass incarceration to #MeToo. We still have not taken the true measure of this problem.
In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder gives context for what we don't know we're seeing. She frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths-that if things were bad enough, victims would just leave; that a violent person cannot become nonviolent; that shelter is an adequate response; and most insidiously that violence inside the home is a private matter, sealed from the public sphere and disconnected from other forms of violence. Through the stories of victims, perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements from across the country, Snyder explores the real roots of private violence, its far-reaching consequences for society, and what it will take to truly address it.
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作者简介
Rachel Louise Snyder is a writer, professor and public radio commentator. Her first book Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade was published in 2007 by WW Norton. An excerpt of the book –aired on This American Life and won an Overseas Press Club Award. Her second book, a novel set in Oak Park, Illinois and entitled What We’ve Lost is Nothing will be published in January, 2014 by Scribner. Her print has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine, Slate, Salon, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Men’s Journal, Jane, Travel and Leisure, the New Republic, Redbook and Glamour. She hosted the nationally-syndicated global affairs series “Latitudes” on public radio, and her stories have aired on Marketplace and All Things Considered. Snyder has traveled to more than 50 countries and lived in London from 1999 – 2001 and in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 2003 - 2009. In the summer of 2009, she relocated to Washington, DC, where she is currently an assistant professor in the MFA creative writing program at American University.
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读书文摘
我攻读了小说研究的硕士，但不久就被非虚构作品深深吸引。因为我很快明白，非虚构作品更容易带来直接的改变。我被这世上那些看不见的角落、那些被剥夺了公民权的人吸引。从一定程度上而言，我理解那种不受关注、无人倾听、承受着身体不能承受之重的悲痛是什么感觉。
我们的文化告诉我们，孩子们必须有父亲、关系是终极目的、家庭是社会的基石，相比离开伴侣、做单亲妈妈，留下来私下解决“问题”是更好的选择。米歇尔·蒙森·莫索尔对母亲一次次坚称，她不想让孩子在一个“破碎的家庭”中长大，仿佛一个成年人虐待另一个成年人的家不是一个“破碎的家庭”，好像“破碎”也有等级之分。
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