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Analysis Of The Longest War By Rebecca Solenit

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In her essay, “The Longest War,” Rebecca Solnit addresses the unrelenting and seemingly endless physical and sexual violence that affects thousands of women in the United States, and millions internationally, as nothing less than a “pandemic of violence by men against women” that is continuously disregarded for what it truly is- an assault on human and civil rights (2). Solnit presents many statistics throughout the essay, including the fact that women worldwide are “more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence”, because of the gendered violence that many refuse to acknowledge despite the plethora of data that backs the claims (5). Solnit asserts that for the ceaseless assaults to end, the violence needs to be clearly defined
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