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\n\nBelieving: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Ani ta Hill
\nFrom the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Cla rence Thomas as a sexual menace\, a new manifesto about the origins and co urse of gender violence in our society\; a combination of memoir\, persona l accounts\, law\, and social analysis\, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors. In 1991\, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence\, t ouching on sex\, race\, age\, and power\, are as urgent today as they were when she first testified. \;Believing \;is a story of America's t hree decades long reckoning with gender violence\, one that offers insight s into its roots\, and paths to creating dialogue and substantive change. It is a call to action that offers guidance based on what this brave\, com mitted fighter has learned from a lifetime of advocacy and her search for solutions to a problem that is still tearing America apart. We once though t gender-based violence--from casual harassment to rape and murder--was an individual problem that affected a few\; we now know it's cultural and en demic\, and happens to our acquaintances\, colleagues\, friends and family members\, and it can be physical\, emotional and verbal. Women of color e xperience sexual harassment at higher rates than White women. Street haras sment is ubiquitous and can escalate to violence. Transgender and nonbinar y people are particularly vulnerable. Anita Hill draws on her years as a t eacher\, legal scholar\, and advocate\, and on the experiences of the thou sands of individuals who have told her their stories\, to trace the pipeli ne of behavior that follows individuals from place to place: from home to school to work and back home. In measured\, clear\, blunt terms\, she demo nstrates the impact it has on every aspect of our lives\, including our ph ysical and mental wellbeing\, housing stability\, political participation\ , economy and community safety\, and how our descriptive language undermin es progress toward solutions. And she is uncompromising in her demands tha t our laws and our leaders must address the issue concretely and immediate ly.
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