The Reckonings: Essays on Justice for the Twenty-First Century - Lacy M. Johnson
Category: Political
Narrator: Candace Thaxton
Tags: Political, Autobiography & Biographies, Short Story, Adults
This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side - rooted in her own experience with sexual assault - pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution., In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her instant classic (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of kidnapping and rape, when a woman asked her what she would like to happen to her rapist. This collection, a meditative extension of that answer, draws from philosophy, art, literature, mythology, anthropology, film, and other fields, as well as Johnsons personal experience, to consider how our ideas about justice might be expanded beyond vengeance and retribution to include acts of compassion, patience, mercy, and grace., From Speak Truth to Power, about the condition of not being believed about rape and assault; to Goliath, about the concept of evil; to Girlhood in a Semi-Barbarous Age, about the sacred feminine, ideal woman, and feminist art, Johnson creates mast
