A Survivors Education, Joy Neumeyer
A Survivors Education, Joy Neumeyer
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A Survivor's Education
Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell

Author: Joy Neumeyer

Narrator: Joy Neumeyer

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 08/20/2024


Synopsis

In this timely memoir, a journalist examines intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to believe. 

In this poignant self-investigation, historian and journalist Joy Neumeyer explores how violence against women is portrayed, perceived, and adjudicated today. Interweaving the harrowing account of the abuse she experienced as a graduate student at Berkeley with those of others who faced violence on campus and beyond, Neumeyer offers a startling look at how the hotly-debated Title IX system has altered university politics and culture, and uncovers the willful misremembrance that enables misconduct on scales large and small.   

Deeply researched, daringly inquisitive, and resonant for our times, A Survivor's Education reveals the entanglement of storytelling, abuse, and power–and how we can balance narrative and evidence in our attempts to determine what “really” happened.  

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michal on August 14, 2024

Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for granting me this ARC in exchange for an honest review. This book is set to be published August 20, 2024. What an incredible read! I'm a huge fan of memoirs and I knew I needed to get my hands on this as soon as I read the description. And let me......more

Goodreads review by Kelsi on April 02, 2024

The way this book is written, it comes across like a stream of consciousness. All the stories and recollections kind of blur together, which made it difficult to follow at times. It didn’t help that many of the conversations in the book seemed to take place via text message and email. I also didn’t......more

Goodreads review by Corky on June 12, 2024

A unique and captivating journey through one woman's abusive relationship and the related aftermath. Neumeyer structured this book in a very strategic manner - specifically the first two thirds. The prologue is a masterpiece - the bait and switch: I returned to the prologue after completing the book.......more

Goodreads review by Kaybeeradio on November 11, 2024

Why write, when it would be easier to turn the page? Speak up, when it’d be ‘nicer’ to stay silent? Reflect, when it would be less painful to forget? Without a voice, the story’s forgotten. And once it’s forgotten, are you still sure it happened in the first place? A Survivor’s Education is an intelli......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on March 28, 2025

This memoir wrecked me, and left me with so many questions as a woman and as someone who has studied and lived so near to history for much of my professional life. How should we understand and integrate narrative evidence into our understanding of the past? At what cost? I’m especially moved by the a......more