I found these books invaluable in understanding both my own experience and the way in which we view rape in our culture. Please let me know if there are others that should be added to this list. (See To talk/tell with others on the Home Page)

 

Memoirs and Journals

WORKING WITH AVAILABLE LIGHT: A Family's World After Violence
Jaime Kalven
Norton, 1999.

SURVIVING THE SILENCE: BLACK WOMEN'S STORIES OF RAPE
Charlotte Pierce-Baker
Norton, 1998.

AFTER SILENCE: Rape and My Journey Back,
Nancy Venable Raine
Crown, 1998.

WHERE I STOPPED: Remembering an Adolescent Rape
Martha Ramsey
Harcourt Brace, 1995.

STILL LOVED BY THE SUN, Miguel Scherer, 1990.

I NEVER CALLED IT RAPE, Robin Warshaw, Harper & Row Publishers, 1988.

SURVIVAL STORIES: MEMOIRS OF CRISIS, edited by Kathryn Rhett, Anchor Books, 1997.

 

Essays

TRANSFORMING A RAPE CULTURE, edited by Emilie Buchwald, Pamela R. Fletcher, Martha Roth, Milkweed Editions, 1993.

LETTERS FROM THE WAR ZONE, Andrea Dworkin, Lawrence Hill Books, 1993.

RAPE: THE POLITICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Susan Griffin, Harper & Row, 1979.

 

Post-Traumatic Stress

TRAUMA AND RECOVERY, Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., Basic Books, 1991.

REBOUNDING FROM CHILDBIRTH, Lynn Madsen, Bergin & Garvey, 1994.

 

Men

MEN'S WORK: HOW TO STOP THE VIOLENCE THAT TEARS OUR LIVES APART, Paul Kivel, Hazelden Educational Materials, 1992

MALE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, edited by Gillian C. Mezey and Michael B. King, Oxford University Press, 1992.

 

History

AGAINST OUR WILL: MEN, WOMEN AND RAPE, Susan Brownmiller, Bantam Books, 1975.

 

Rape and the law

A WOMAN SCORNED: ACQUAINTANCE RAPE ON TRIAL, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Doubleday, 1996.

REAL RAPE, Susan Estrich, Harvard University Press, 1987.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE: OUR WAR AGAINST RAPE, Linda Fairstein, William Morrow and Company, 1993,

 

Drama

SCHEHRAZADE, Marisha Chamberlain, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1985.

UNTIL SOMEONE WAKES UP, Carolyn Levy et al, contact Levy c/o Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. 55104

 

Storytelling

WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES: MYTHS AND STORIES OF THE WILD WOMAN ARCHTYPE, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballentine, 1992.

WRITING DOWN THE BONES, Natalie Goldberg, Shambhala Press, 1986.

LIFE'S COMPANION:Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest, Bantam, 1996.

 

Academic/Research

THE FEMALE FEAR: THE SOCIAL COST OF RAPE, Margaret T. Gordon and Stephanie Riger, University of Illinois Press, 1989.

RAPE IN AMERICA: A REPORT TO THE NATION, prepared by the National Victim Center and Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, 1992.