SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Miriam Toews

»Miriam Toews (/ˈteɪvz/; born May 21, 1964) OC OM is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018).« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Women Talking

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Women Talking is a 2018 novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews. Her seventh novel, Toews describes it as "an imagined response to real events," the gas-facilitated rapes that took place on the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia: Between 2005 and 2009, over a hundred girls and women in the colony woke up to discover that they had been raped in their sleep. These nighttime attacks were denied or dismissed by colony elders until finally it was revealed that a group of men from the colony were spraying an animal anaesthetic into their victims' houses to render them unconscious. Toews' novel centers on the secret meetings of eight Mennonite women who, on behalf of the other women in the colony, must decide how to react to these traumatic events. They have only 48 hours before the colony men, who are away to post bail for the rapists, return.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: American History: Bolivian History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Real Incidents: Bolivian Mennonite Gas-Facilitated Serial Gang-Rape Case | Types: Circumstances: Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault; Offenders: Gang Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Istighfaroh, Aulya D., et al. »The Stages of Male Oppression Towards Women in The Novel Women Talking by Miriam Toews.« Journal of English Studies and Business Communication 2 (2025): 29-38.

II. Speaker Index