Written Out: How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing - Cynthia Rothschild (used)

Paperback. International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commissions and Center for Women’s Global Leadership. 2005. Used (good condition).

Women's sexualities are under attack. Around the world, women who organize, assert them-selves, enter the political sphere or simply fail to behave "acceptably" are called "deviant" or

"perverted." The accusations are used to discredit and to control them. Violence may greet the refusal to conform.

Originally published in 2000, Written Out has been updated to include an analysis of the current political climate and recent experiences of sexuality-baiting directed at women because of their political work, who they are or who they are seen to be.

In this revised report, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWL) again show how attacks on women's sexualities threaten all women's basic human rights to bodily integrity, to expression and to association-as well as undermine essential values of equality and dignity. The stories told here reveal how women have refused to be silenced: how activists have met prejudice with courage and hatred with determination.