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A Survivor's Education Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell

Joy Neumeyer

A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 In this poignant self-investigation, historian and journalist Joy Neumeyer explores how violence against women is portrayed, perceived, and adjudicated today. Interweaving the harrowing account of the abuse she experienced as a graduate student at Berkeley with those of o...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein described it as an astonishing book that follows a graduate student's experience with abuse and the TitleIX process, highlighting how she weaves personal trauma into broader historical work.

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I think we will recommend an astonishing book about her experience as a graduate student in history at Berkeley surviving an abusive relationship and going through the Title IX process and the reason...

— Episode: What if Trump Just Ignores the Courts?

Episode: What if Trump Just Ignores the Courts?

Ezra Klein described it as an astonishing book that follows a graduate student's experience with abuse and the TitleIX process, highlighting how she weaves personal trauma into broader historical work.

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I think we will recommend an astonishing book about her experience as a graduate student in history at Berkeley surviving an abusive relationship and going through the Title IX process and the reason that I mention it here is that I think what Joy does in a really astonishing way is weave together the details of her experience as somebody who suffered from this abuse as somebody who was testifying to her own experience with what it means to do the work of history when the archive is uncertain as to what it's telling you.

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