Talk To A Survivor

ON PATRIARCHY, GENDER, AND THE ORIGINS OF OWNERSHIP Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (Oxford University Press, 1986). Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Harper & Row, 1987). Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (University of California Press, 2003). Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and...

This episode traces the architecture of sexual abuse — the legal and religious frameworks that governed girls' bodies from the ancient world through American history. Beginning in ancient Sumer, where the moral recognition of harm to children existed and was written down, the episode moves through Biblical law, Christian canon law, the witch trials, and Hindu child marriage practices — arguing tha...

In this introductory episode, host and survivor DeAnn Tilton asks the question that shaped her life and her work: Why is it like this? She traces her path from a childhood of confusion and harm, to a hospital that treated her but didn't protect her sisters, to a phone call to the police that ended with the words "statute of limitations." Along the way she began to find the answers — not personal o...