Author: adminGBV
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Nadia Murad with Jenna Krajeski (2017) The Last Girl: My story of captivity, and my fight against the Islamic State. New York: Tim Duggan Books.
By Harriet Gray Nadia Murad was born in 1993 in Kocho, a mainly Yazidi village in the Sinjar district of...
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Revisiting Wronged Women’s Stories: ‘Framing Britney Spears’ (2021) and ‘Pamela: A Love Story’ (2023)
By Phoebe Martin Recently, there has been a wave of documentaries revisiting the lives of women who were the targets...
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Kirby Dick (dir) (2015) The Hunting Ground, RADiUS-TWC
By Harriet Gray The Hunting Ground documentary came out in 2015, so I am a little behind the times on...
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Chanel Miller (2019) Know My Name: A Memoir, New York: Viking Press
By Harriet Gray It is not the purpose of this blog to offer reviews of the cultural products with which...
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Emerald Fennell (dir.) (2020) Promising Young Woman, Universal Pictures
By Harriet Gray Promising Young Woman is a funny, angry, stylised revenge thriller. Our heroine, of sorts, is Cassie (played...
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Kate Elizabeth Russell (2020) My Dark Vanessa, London: 4th Estate
By Harriet Gray My Dark Vanessa is a novel centred on the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl, Vanessa Wye, by...