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One afternoon in 2024, when her session in court had ended unusually early, Gisèle Pelicot went to the Leclerc supermarket in Carpentras, a picturesque town in Provence. She asked to meet the security ...

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Content warning: this episode contains discussions of sexual abuse. In 2024, Gisèle Pelicot waived her right to anonymity as the victim during her own rape case in France, demanding a public trial.

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Pelicot’s riveting account of her ordeal refuses to conform to any agenda but her own It is a mark of the power and honesty of Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir, A Hymn to Life – a seemingly impossible writing ...

Now she has written a book that’s extraordinary both for the story it tells and the acuity with which it’s told. Elegantly translated from French by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver, A Hymn to Life is ...

In 1999 Vanessa Veselka wrote an essay, The Collapsible Woman, in Bitch magazine. In it she welcomed the growing public language around sexual violence while bristling at the narrow emotional scripts ...

Gisèle Pelicot will perhaps be experiencing a renewed sense of freedom today. Her memoir "A Hymn to Life: Shame has to change sides" is now available in 22 languages across the world, marking a major ...

For nearly a decade, Gisèle Pelicot was raped in her own bed while she slept. Her husband drugged her food and drink, rendered her unconscious, and then invited strangers he had found on the internet ...

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With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...