A review by iffer
Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Anita Hill
4.0
This book is powerful, and very informative, but it can be dry at times, though the memoir components and personal stories help to balance this out.
After watching the documentary about Anita Hill, I wanted to know more about her story, especially in the wake of the the farce that was the investigation into Christine Blasey-Ford's rape allegations of now-Supreme Court Judge Brett Cavanaugh. In this book Hill combines her personal experiences, as well as specific examples from both well-publicized and lesser-known stories, with history and law precedent (that fail to) address gender-based violence to provide an overview of where we are, where we have been, and where we must go to eliminate gender-based violence, which she convincingly characterizes as a public health and existential hazard to our society.
After watching the documentary about Anita Hill, I wanted to know more about her story, especially in the wake of the the farce that was the investigation into Christine Blasey-Ford's rape allegations of now-Supreme Court Judge Brett Cavanaugh. In this book Hill combines her personal experiences, as well as specific examples from both well-publicized and lesser-known stories, with history and law precedent (that fail to) address gender-based violence to provide an overview of where we are, where we have been, and where we must go to eliminate gender-based violence, which she convincingly characterizes as a public health and existential hazard to our society.