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Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,268 ratings — published 2014
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Asking For It Asking For It (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 24,787 ratings — published 2015
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All the Rage All the Rage (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,503 ratings — published 2015
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,247 ratings — published 2018
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The Female of the Species The Female of the Species (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,621 ratings — published 2016
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear Exit, Pursued by a Bear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,747 ratings — published 2016
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Speak Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.06 — 644,478 ratings — published 1999
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Know My Name Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.67 — 274,393 ratings — published 2019
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.12 — 60,708 ratings — published 2015
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,236 ratings — published 2008
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The Nowhere Girls The Nowhere Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,798 ratings — published 2017
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,157 ratings — published 1975
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,695 ratings — published 2018
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We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.38 — 500 ratings — published 2016
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The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,558,197 ratings — published 1985
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.95 — 17,062 ratings — published 2015
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Transforming a Rape Culture Transforming a Rape Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.36 — 749 ratings — published 1993
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What We Saw What We Saw (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,116 ratings — published 2015
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Some Boys Some Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,278 ratings — published 2014
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.33 — 44,795 ratings — published 2019
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Beartown (Beartown, #1) Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.28 — 655,938 ratings — published 2016
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,670 ratings — published 2016
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,815 ratings — published 2009
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Wrecked Wrecked (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,778 ratings — published 2016
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Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 224 ratings — published 2013
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Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,926,589 ratings — published 2011
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,637 ratings — published 2019
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Hecha de estrellas Hecha de estrellas (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,223 ratings — published 2018
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,526,080 ratings — published 2005
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Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1) Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.07 — 229,787 ratings — published 2012
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The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1) The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.02 — 126,391 ratings — published 2020
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Circe Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,469,556 ratings — published 2018
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A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,336 ratings — published 2018
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Bad Feminist Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,142 ratings — published 2014
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Faking Normal (Faking Normal, #1) Faking Normal (Faking Normal, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,795 ratings — published 2014
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The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1) The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.14 — 254,093 ratings — published 2016
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Luckiest Girl Alive Luckiest Girl Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.54 — 261,426 ratings — published 2015
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Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1) Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.92 — 753,010 ratings — published 2009
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Bright Young Women Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.98 — 247,899 ratings — published 2023
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I Have Some Questions for You I Have Some Questions for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.58 — 146,831 ratings — published 2023
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Sadie Sadie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.02 — 134,182 ratings — published 2018
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Foul Is Fair Foul Is Fair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,164 ratings — published 2020
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The Red Word The Red Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,585 ratings — published 2018
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Shout Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,493 ratings — published 2019
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Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1) Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.80 — 59,855 ratings — published 2018
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Any Man Any Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.82 — 16,268 ratings — published 2018
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Blood Water Paint Blood Water Paint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,289 ratings — published 2018
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,717 ratings — published 2017
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Men Explain Things to Me Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,464 ratings — published 2014
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Roxane Gay
“Anger is always reserved for someone else. And yet, I've been in a room with a woman who escaped a war, who lost her father in ethnic cleansing, whose mother burned her hair, whose cousin raped her. "What right do I have to be angry, when I'm alive? she said.

Anger is a privilege of the truly broken, and yet I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry. An angry woman must answer for herself. The reasons for her anger must be picked over, examined, and debated. My anger must stand the scrutiny of the court of law, of evidentiary procedures. I must prove it comes from somewhere justified and not just because one time some man touched my sister. Or because one time some man touched some woman and will continue on and on.”
Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay
“Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths.”
Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

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