Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky

Author:Sara Paretsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781844674695
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2013-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

At the book’s end the psychoanalyst has been so damaged by her beguiling patient that she gives up her professional practice and returns to her parents’ Pennsylvania farm. She has learned her lesson. She has shut up and retreated from being a woman, working on her own in the big city, to being a girl—a child—back under the protection of her parents.

As I worked on this essay in the fall of 2006, a gunman invaded an Amish school in Pennsylvania, sent the boys home, sexually abused the girls and then murdered five of them.

Writing on this in the New York Times, Bob Herbert said:

Imagine if a gunman had gone into a school, separated the kids on the basis of race or religion and then shot only the black kids. Or only the white kids. Or only the Jews. There would have been thunderous outrage . . . and the attack would have been seen for what it really was: a hate crime. None of that occurred because these were just girls, and we have become so accustomed to living in a society saturated with misogyny that violence against females is . . . expected.8

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