How Many More Women?: The Silencing of Women by the Law and How to Stop It

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The judge in the case ruled that the technical definition of strangulation means that someone does it with an intent to kill, and the judge found the man’s intent was to silence the woman, not to kill her. One incredibly powerful phrase expressed in the book is the need to “free her speech”, meaning that women need to be able to speak about their experiences of gender-based violence in public platforms and their lived experiences need to be better reflected in the law. Mysoginist mythology has inaccurately characterized the reality of false rape allegations (colour me surprised). In the UK only 0.23% of rape reports lead to a false arrest and only 0.07% of rape reports lead to a man being falsely charged with rape. Robinson and Yoshida first met while both working as junior barristers at Doughty Street Chambers in London and both united over a case that felt deeply unjust to them. On one hand, How Many More Women? could work better as a historical account of how the law failed women around and during the #MeToo movement. But on the other hand, the information is all incredibly current, and these laws need some kind of grassroots foundations to be built to start tearing them down.Fast forward, then he sues her in the United States for an op-ed in which she doesn’t name him. She describes herself as a survivor and a person who became a public figure as associated with domestic violence, which is a fact.” How many more women: have to be raped or abused before we act? need to accuse him before we believe her? will be failed by the criminal justice system? need to say something before we do something? will be sued for defamation for speaking out? will be contracted to silence? We suggest a number of legal changes in the book. First, we need to ensure that the courts understand, protect and uphold women´s rights to free speech and this can be done through recognising speech on gender-based violence as public interest speech. We also need to ensure that women can afford to speak. Otherwise, women who are sued will continue to face bankruptcy – what is the value of free speech if you can’t afford to defend it? We also need to ensure that judges hearing media cases understand and have training on gender-based violence and the myths associated with sexual and gendered violence. We see those myths creeping into how media cases are argued when they are prohibited in the criminal justice system. There are many more changes you can read about in the book. We are in a crucial moment: women are breaking through the cultural reticence around gender-based violence. But just as survivors have begun to feel empowered to speak out, a new form of systematic silencing has made itself more evident: rich and powerful men are using teams of lawyers to suppress allegations and prevent newspaper stories from running. Individual women, advocacy groups and journalists find themselves fighting against censorship. From two internationally acclaimed lawyers comes a masterful and urgent exploration of the legal response to the MeToo movement in Australia and around the world.

This book is about a movement. A movement made up of women and men around the world who are no longer afraid to speak out about violence, abuse, harassment, sexism, abuse of power and patriarchy. A movement which started with the courage of a number of women in the media and advertising industries and has spread across countries, industries and social class. This movement has uncovered the global scale of gender discrimination, sexual abuse and exploitation which women and girls face. As the years have passed, the movement has grown - with peaks of activity coinciding around the latest revelation of sexual harassment or abuse in the halls of power and in different industries - a domino effect in society. From Hollywood and #MeToo in 2017, to Iran and #IranMeToo in 2020, to the Women's March 4 Justice in Australia in 2021, women have spoken out about their experiences, sparking mass protests for change. How many more women: have to be raped or abused before we act? need to accuse him before we believe her? will be failed by the criminal justice system? need to say something before we do something? will be sued for defamation for speaking out?will be contracted to silence? A clear-eyed and damning indictment of the criminal justice system…. the writing is engaging and gripping.’ IRISH TIMES And this is not an isolated or country-specific trend but something that’s being seen all over the world. Another thing that’s revealed in court cases such as the US trial between Depp and Heard is the way the law is currently applied and interpreted in the best interest of men, while restricting womens’ rights to freedom of expression.Simply a must- read. Did you know only 14% of sexual assult victim/survivors report the assult to police? Or that only 1-2% of reported rapes lead to a conviction? Did you know that a women who experiences gender-based violence, who later speaks out about their experience, even when they DONT name their abuser, can be sued by their abuser, thus finding themselves the one being persecuted. Whether the #MeToo movement resonated with you, or (and especially if) you believed Depp vs. Heard trial was just a "mutually toxic" relationship, this book is for you. The book is written very plainly, with language that’s easy to read, instead of being couched in legalese. Sir John Clancy Auditorium is located at UNSW Sydney's Kensington Campus ( highlighted red on this map ). Please note this is a live event only, and will not be available via livestream. Robinson’s recounts of the Depp versus Heard trials are incredibly powerful and provide important insights into how Heard was treated by the public. The authors write with determination to humanise Heard and others like her, after other media has alienated them from the world. The Sir John Clancy Auditorium has a hearing loop. Please see staff for assisted listening seats, and please turn your hearing aid to T for reception.

Robinson represented Heard and said: “We worked together and with the newspapers, to prepare the defence, and a judge ruled in 2020 that he found it to be true that Depp had violently assaulted her on 12 separate occasions. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days. These words of Marilyn Frye from her book The Politics of Reality instantly came to mind and lingered as I read How Many More Women by Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida. At large, the book serves as a clear demonstration of how easily individuals can overlook systemic issues when they encounter them within a single case, and highlights the alarming tendency for people to repeatedly fall for the same overused, unoriginal textbook manipulative tactics when they continue to form their opinions solely based on circumstantial facts, spontaneous acquisition of knowledge, and unquestioned internalised biases; an approach that isolates the case from its critical systemic context, which also plays a pivotal role in perpetuating these patterns. That, along with the absence of essential knowledge base about the relevant social, legal and medical factors at play, especially when it comes to topics around which society is knee-deep in myths and misconceptions, like Coercive Control, Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault—the core subject matters of the authors’ work—prevent individuals from grasping the full magnitude of the issue or developing the right perspective needed to recognise these cases as part of a broader pattern, leaving their perception vulnerable to being manipulated, and themselves to being complicit in facilitating the weaponisation of our collective ignorance of trauma and abuse dynamics to impose further harm upon victims.In the wake of #MeToo, women are increasingly speaking up against gender-based violence. But as they have grown empowered to speak, a new form of systematic silencing has become more evident: the spike in survivors speaking out has been followed by a spike in legal actions against them and the media. Paid casual and visitor parking is offered via the CellOPark App and ‘pay by plate meters’. For more information head here. We cannot act if we do not know. If women cannot speak about their abuse - and journalists are fearful of telling their stories - then how can we understand the problem of gender-based violence in our society? And how can we even begin to end it? If women cannot speak about their abuse -- and journalists are fearful of telling their stories - then how can we understand the problem of gender-based violence in our society? And how can we even begin to end it?