Marie-Thérèse Cuny is a French writer, screenwriter, translator, and television presenter. She is recognized for her collaborations with Jacques Antoine and Pierre Bellemare. Her creative output demonstrates a distinct approach to storytelling and thematic exploration.
Souad here relates how she survived an attempted 'honour killing' in her West Bank village for having had premarital sex. She calls for an end to the code of silence that allows this practice to continue in certain Islamic societies.
A devastating first-hand testimony exposing the cruel and widespread practice of forced marriage 'I was twenty years old and dreamed of marrying for love.' Leila was born and brought up in France by Moroccan-born parents. But her romantic dreams were shattered when she was forced by her father to marry a man she'd never met, fifteen years older than her, and whose language she couldn't understand. The husband she didn't love beat her regularly in an attempt to force her into submission. With extraordinary courage, Leila fought back against the weight of family tradition to regain her liberty and dignity. And despite the very real risks, she has left her husband and speaks out openly against the evils of forced marriage.
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Nathalie avait douze ans quand son père l'a violée pour la première fois. En ce temps-là, confie-t-elle, "j'étais toute fière quand on me disait que j'étais déjà une petite femme. Je ne savais pas ce que ça voulait dire être une petite femme en miniature, une poupée que mon père installait tranquillement dans la nuit sur la machine à laver pour la violer". Pendant cinq ans, la peur, la résignation, la culpabilité l'empêchent de parler. et puis, à dix-huit ans, avec un courage et une détermination admirables, elle décide de briser le silence : elle porte plainte contre son père et accepte de témoigner à la télévision. "J'ai entamé une véritable croisade. J'avais envie de dire à toutes les filles comme moi de ne plus avoir honte." Nathalie crie sa douleur. À nous de faire silence pour écouter, et partager son combat.
Segundo as vozes da tradição, a excisão aumenta a fecundidade das mulheres, garante a pureza e virgindade de uma jovem bm como a fidelidade de uma esposa... Na realidade, esta mutilaçõ bárbara põe em perigo a vida das jovens raparigas que a ela são submetidas, priva-as do prazer e destrói para sempre as suas vidas enquanto mulheres. O testemunho de Khady e o de uma criança que, aos sete anos, viveu este pesadelo e que, uma vez mulher, tomou consciência da barbárie desta prática. É o percurso de uma sobrevivente que denuncia, com uma coragem extraordinária, aquilo que teve de suportar, uma militante que luta sem descanso para salvar as criaças do horror que ela própria foi obrigada a viver.
I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it - about my 'personal' Dutroux Affair, my time in the company of the most hated psychopath in Belgium. I need to write this book for three so that people stop giving me strange looks and treating me like a curiosity; so that no one ever asks me any more questions ever again; and so that the judicial system never again frees a paedophile for 'good behaviour'.''The Dutroux Affair' shook the whole of Europe. In the middle of the immense machinery of investigation and justice there was Sabine Dardenne herself, Dutroux's last victim. She was held captive for eighty days - and survived. Far from sensationalising the horror, her story, dignified and restrained, is ultimately uplifting. Says Sabine Dardenne, 'I choose to live'.
In this sequel to Not Without My Daughter , Betty Mahmoody describes her cultural readjustment to America, her constant fear of her husband's revenge, and her frustration with a legal system unable to offer her protection--but the story is not hers alone. Mahmoody describes her many encounters with others who have tried to escape similar situations, telling their dramatic stories with the sensitivity of one who knows only too well what they've been through and how far they still have to go. For The Love of a Child is a thrilling adventure with a vitally important message.
In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala, was gang-raped by a local clan known as the Mastoi — punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman's brother. While certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in a family, this time the survivor had bravely chosen to fight back. In doing so, Mai single-handedly changed the feminist movement in Pakistan, one of the world's most adverse climates for women. By July 2002, the Pakistani government awarded her the equivalent of 8,500 U.S. dollars in compensation money and sentenced her attackers to death — and Mukhtar Mai went on to open a school for girls so that future generations would not suffer, as she had, from illiteracy. In this rousing account, Mai describes her experience and how she has since become an agent for change and a beacon of hope for oppressed women around the world. Timely and topical, "In the Name of Honor" is the remarkable and inspirational memoir of a woman who fought and triumphed against exceptional odds.
Autobiografisch relaas van een vrouw die van haar 12e tot haar 18e jaar door haar vader seksueel misbruikt werd.
