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Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland
Maybe someday
49
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
37/100Critics
61/100Scholars
Author:
Nancy Schwartzman
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Date:
July 12, 2022
A narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change.
What The Reviewers Say
... meticulous.
... brings to it the benefit of historical perspective and her filmmaker’s eye, laying out the events and aftermath in exacting detail. Schwartzman, working with coauthor Zelevansky, also includes the perspectives of a California-based crime blogger who spent her youth in the Ohio Valley and Steubenville women residents who came forward with stories of personal sexual assault from previous decades. This compelling account offers heartbreaking evidence of the pervasive, systemic, and toxic misogyny that thrives in many American communities..
... powerful and compelling.
... searing.
