![]() ![]() In 2009, two men were caught when a woman woke up during an assault, and eventually a group of nine men-ages 19 to 43-confessed to the attacks from the past four years. Some women remembered brief moments of terror: For an instant they would wake to a man or men on top of them but couldn't summon the strength to yell or fight back. As Vice reported, "Throughout the community, people were waking to the same telltale morning signs: ripped pajamas, blood and semen on the bed, head-thumping stupor. Starting in 2005 in a Mennonite community in the Latin American nation, women and children were drugged and raped, and told that their attacks were ghosts and demons. The true story (and Women Talking, the novel) took place in Bolivia. "I hope the Mennonite patriarchy and the misogyny inherent in the fundamentalism that conservative Mennonites preach, that one day will change." ![]() "I felt I had an obligation to write down hope for change for Mennonite girls and women," Toews said. Toews herself was born in a Mennonite community in Canada she left when she turned 18. Women Talking is based on a true story, one that was fictionalized by author Miriam Toews. ![]()
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