Eight top defiant books by women

Amy Butcher is an award-winning essayist and author of Mothertrucker, a book that interrogates the realities of female fear, abusive relationships, and America’s quiet epidemic of intimate partner violence set against the geography of remote, northern Alaska.

At Lit Hub she tagged eight favorite defiant books by women, including:

Chanel Miller, Know My Name

I am with you, Chanel Miller writes to all the girls and women who have been dismissed, who have been doubted and deserted and silenced by an American criminal justice system designed to protect its perpetrators and the patriarchal society that birthed them. Once known only as Jane Doe in the sentencing of Stanford swimmer rapist Brock Turner, Miller’s startlingly vulnerable and intimate memoir grew from a victim impact statement read by over eleven million people in the span of four short days. Know My Name exposes a culture designed to extend protections primarily to offenders, punish society’s most vulnerable, and allow an epidemic of sexual assault continue to thrive and prosper. An unthinkably intelligent, important book.

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--Marshal Zeringue