

Roll Red Roll
Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland
Author: Nancy Schwartzman, Nora Zelevansky
Narrator: Nancy Schwartzman, Brittany Pressley
Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 07/12/2022
Synopsis
Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman spent four years embedded in the town, documenting the case and its reverberations. Ten years after the assault, Roll Red Roll is the culmination of that research, weaving in new interviews and personal reflections to take readers beyond Steubenville to examine rape culture in everything from sports to teen dynamics. Roll Red Roll explores the factors that normalize sexual assault in our communities. Through inter-views with sportswriter David Zirin, victim’s rights attorney Gloria Allred and more, Schwartzman untangles the societal norms in which we too often sacrifice our daughters to protect our sons. With the Steubenville case as a flashpoint that helped spark the #MeToo movement, a decade later, Roll Red Roll focuses on the perpetrators and asks, can our society truly change?