Women's Voices: From slavery to the

The end of the American Civil War offered emancipated African American women the right to bring rape charges against white men for the first time, leading to an escalation in disclosures of sexual violence. In this lecture historian Elizabeth Barnes considers lessons from this wave of revelations for the modern day #MeToo movement and explores how the pattern of progress followed by sustained backlash continues to be felt today. The Fairbrother Lecture is an annual Graduate School event at which a Reading doctoral researcher presents their research to a wider audience. For more information see www.reading.ac.uk/fairbrother-lecture

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The victims say that the movement itself just brings back our traumatic memories. There is a fine line between transparency and being forcefully outed as a victim. Sexual misconduct and abuse is the fact. We need to confront it, deal with it, and not be afraid to say and do the right thing!!!!!!!

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thank u, my friend is now a new man gluck nan