Up Against a Wall Yara M. Asi Chrisinger explores both the difficulties

Chrisinger explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way

and powerful communicators

first toward his union-organizer brother and then toward his brother's widow

making this biographical drama almost autobiographical

and there's no way to get revenge on the mean girls at her boring new school without a good curse

Up Against a Wall Yara M. Asi Chrisinger explores both the difficultiesRape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses to victims of sexual violence. In Up Against a Wall, Rose Corrigan draws on interviews with over 150 local rape care advocates in communities across the