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The Red Word

Availability: Out of Stock
ISBN: 9781999700874
AuthorHenstra, Sarah
Pub Date21/03/2019
BindingTrade PB
Pages328
CountryGBR
Dewey813.6
Publisher: Tramp Press
Quick overview 'The Red Word' offers a lyrical yet eyes-wide-open account of the epic clash between fraternities' time-honored `right to party' and young women's demands for sexual safety and respect. With strains of 'The Marriage Plot' and reminiscent of the work of Zadie Smith and Tom Wolfe
€14.77

The battle of the sexes goes to college in this smart, thrilling debut by university English professor Sarah Henstra. University student Karen is swept up in back-to-school revelry and when she wakes up after a frat party lying on the lawn of Raghurst, a house of radical feminists, she gets a crash course in anti-frat activism on campus. GBC (`Gang Bang Central') is especially notorious, she learns, with several names featured on a list of date rapists compiled by female students.

Despite continuing to party at GBC and even dating one of the brothers, Karen is seduced by the intellectual stimulation and indomitable spirit of the Raghurst women. As Karen finds herself caught between two increasingly polarized camps, her feminist housemates believe they have hit on the perfect way to expose and bring down the fraternity as a symbol of rape culture... but the war between the houses will exact a terrible price.

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The battle of the sexes goes to college in this smart, thrilling debut by university English professor Sarah Henstra. University student Karen is swept up in back-to-school revelry and when she wakes up after a frat party lying on the lawn of Raghurst, a house of radical feminists, she gets a crash course in anti-frat activism on campus. GBC (`Gang Bang Central') is especially notorious, she learns, with several names featured on a list of date rapists compiled by female students.

Despite continuing to party at GBC and even dating one of the brothers, Karen is seduced by the intellectual stimulation and indomitable spirit of the Raghurst women. As Karen finds herself caught between two increasingly polarized camps, her feminist housemates believe they have hit on the perfect way to expose and bring down the fraternity as a symbol of rape culture... but the war between the houses will exact a terrible price.