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On Being Raped
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On Inconvenient Truths
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On Doing the Right Thing
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On Being a Man
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On Not Getting Over It
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On Unsatisfactory Resolutions
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Raymond M. Douglas is the Russell B. Colgate Distinguished University Professor of History at Colgate University. His most recent work of history, Orderly and Humane- The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War, received the 2013 George Louis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.
“A searing, self-reflective account...Courageous, sobering, and
cathartic.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“This short and devastating memoir is at once intimate and
analytical...On Being Raped is eloquent about the nonexistent
resources available to male rape victims, a situation that mirrors
what female victims faced a half century ago.”
—Harper’s Magazine
“On Being Raped, Douglas’ slim volume about that four-hour
experience and everything that followed, is as much a political
treatise as a memoir. It serves as a declaration of the rights of
male rape victims within a culture that still believes such things
don’t happen, not to real men.”
—Libby Copeland, Slate Book Review
“On Being Raped is a crucial contribution to our understanding of
the effects of sexual violence. Told with grace, beauty, and raw
human emotion, it makes the world face the too often neglected
plight of adult male survivors.”
—Laura Gray-Rosendale, author of College Girl: A Memoir
“With great courage and honesty, Raymond M. Douglas recounts and
interrogates the most intimate and devastating violation a human
being, man or woman, can suffer. His beautifully written inquiry
faces down all the questions, one by one, and in doing so
challenges the reader’s assumptions about gender, violence,
masculinity, and recovery. On Being Raped is a profoundly moving
memoir that will press you to think hard about your gendered
response to sexual violence, especially when the person victimized
suffers in a body the prevailing attitude deems somehow less worthy
of sympathy, support, and justice. Douglas has gone into the
darkness and brought us back a great gift. May we be wise enough to
receive it.”
—Richard Hoffman, author of Half the House and Love & Fury
“This is an extraordinary book and we are so lucky that Raymond M.
Douglas has had the courage to write it. He tells his story of
being raped with unflinching honesty and yet also great eloquence.
In its fierce intelligence, On Being Raped shocks but also inspires
us. Douglas’s thoughts on the ‘survivor’ movement (or ‘on not
getting over it’) are fresh and analytically precise. This wise and
elegantly written book deserves a wide general audience.”
—Mary Louise Roberts, author of What Soldiers Do
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