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Raising our Voices: Continuing to Break the Silence Surrounding Sexual Assault

Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking. Edited by Miranda Horvath and Jennifer Brown, Devon, UK; Portland, OR, Willan Publishing, 2009. 353 pp. $44.95 (soft cover). ISBN: 978-1-84392-520-0

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Orchowski, L.M. Raising our Voices: Continuing to Break the Silence Surrounding Sexual Assault. Sex Roles 63, 448–450 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-010-9776-4

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