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...massacre in a Chinese city in World War II, in which the Japanese army killed thousands of people?a death toll possibly even higher than that of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?have been relegated to a historical footnote? Driven to find the answer, Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking, a landmark work of history that helped push the 1937 bloodbath into the public's consciousness and the then-29-year-old American to the forefront of nonfiction writing. Criticized by some Japanese scholars who questioned its accuracy, Chang's book received wide acclaim almost everywhere else...
...DIED.IRIS CHANG, 36, American historian whose 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; of suicide; near Los Gatos, California. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching her fourth...
Woman Thou Art Loosed is a misnomer. Titling this film Movie Thou Art Disturbing, Depressing, Not Very Uplifting Nor Powerful At All! would be far more appropriate. The main character, Michelle, played by Kimberly Elise, is raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the age of twelve, and cannot reconcile her painful past with her spiritual quest for God. To Elise’s credit, she does as much as much as possible with such a weak script. On her time in jail: “I was getting raped in the shower and a woman was pulling...
Harvard appears to recognize this attitude. Every freshman has been required to attend three rape sessions. And it is clear that although there are men who are raped, the vast majority of rape victims are women. As a result of these figures, the talks were slanted to focus on women as the potential victims of sexual assault and rape. They focused on empowering women to feel comfortable saying “No!” and setting limits when it comes to sex. Ideally, these “empowered” women will then feel confident enough to stand...
...merely representative of America’s values. Without the Clubs, the system would still exist. Women would still be able to get into the majority of Harvard parties, while their male friends would not. Women would still remain the vast majority of the victims of sexual assault and rape...