| Description |
1 online resource (pages) |
|
text file rdaft |
|
(pdf) |
| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
It's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says numbers Boy takes what he wants anyway. After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain that a man who wasn't her husband, who she had agreed to go on a date with, had just raped her. Or go home and pray that, in the morning, it would be only a nightmare. In the years that followed, Eden was met with disbelief by strangers, friends, and the authorities, often as a result of stigma towards her non-monogamy, sex positivity, and bisexuality. Societal conditioning of acceptable female sexuality silenced her to a point of despair, leading to addiction and even attempted suicide. It was through the act of writing that she began to heal. Crying Wolf is a gripping memoir that shares the raw path to recovery after violence and spotlights the ways survivors are too often demonized or ignored when they belong to marginalized communities. Boudreau heralds a new era for others dismissed for "crying wolf." After all, women prevailing to change society for others is also a tale as old as time. |
| Note |
Publisher metadata. |
| Indexed Term |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment |
| Subject |
Boudreau, Eden.
|
|
Rape victims -- Canada -- Biography.
|
|
Sexual abuse victims -- Canada -- Biography.
|
|
Rape victims -- Rehabilitation.
|
|
Sexual abuse victims -- Rehabilitation.
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| ISBN |
9781771668095 (e-pub) |
|
9781771668088 (print) |
|
