ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the hard-hitting statistics about rape in Canada and the United States, as well as the hidden biases and assumptions surrounding this violence. This deep collective trauma, which far too many women experience at some point in their lives, is given voice through Ana Mozol’s personal memoir of her own violation as an adolescent. The chapter reveals the victims’ story that remains hidden within a patriarchal world frame that privileges the perpetrators perspective through the paucity of research on this topic as well as the silence that surrounds these traumas at the personal, familial, and cultural levels.
