Terrorism scholar Jessica Stern turns her investigative powers on her past, her father, and herself to uncover the identity of the serial rapist who raped her when she was sixteen and the individuals and institutions complicit in his crimes.
Show Notes
Denial: A Memoir of Terror
by Jessica Stern
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/denial-jessica-stern?variant=32206396227618
Utmost Resistance
Examining Sexual Violence Law in the United States
“Lucy” in the book is Amy Vorenberg, the daughter of then dean of the Harvard Law School and a retired law professor from the University of New Hampshire. https://law.unh.edu/person/amy-vorenberg
She wrote about her experience of being raped at 13 in the Boston Globe and has recently published a book on the law of sexual assault. Amy Vorenberg, “Congressman’s Comments on Rape Show Ignorance, Lack of Compassion,” Boston Globe August 24, 2012.
(No longer available online.). In 2006 she tried to get Harvard to turn over all the files related to her rape but Harvard refused.
“A Survivor Speaks: The Double Standard of Sex Crimes,” Time Magazine, July 27, 2011. Stern writes in support of Nafissatou Diallo.
Article about sexual abuse in madrassas and terrorism.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/saudi-arabia/2009-12-21/mind-over-martyr
