DVD : She Stole My Voice: A Documentary About Lesbian Rape (Uncensored Version)
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Audience Rating: NC-17
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0837101429368
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Label: The American Academy for Film and Gender Studies
Manufacturer: The American Academy for Film and Gender Studies
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: The American Academy for Film and Gender Studies
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 07, 2007
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 19201
Studio: The American Academy for Film and Gender Studies
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In one of the most important and controversial documentaries of the last five years, filmmakers Justine Chang and Armand Kaye examine a crime that has been ignored, discounted, and even declared impossible. The result of years of research and production, She Stole My Voice: A Documentary About Lesbian Rape is a jarring, terrifying, and eye-opening look at this lesbian rape and sexual violence between women.
The film masterfully interweaves community responses, expert analyses, and graphic reenactments to create an absolutely unforgettable experience. Viewers will see the reality and prevalence of this crime, and learn how the community as a whole, law enforcement, and even the lesbian community itself have repeatedly discounted this crime. And in the unforgettable and terrifyingly graphic reenactments of lesbian rape, viewers will begin to truly understand the chilling and horrific experience of actual lesbian rape.
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I bought this dvd as research material for my thesis and found the commentary by the various individuals quite informational, though I have to say the acting absolutely sucks!
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as other reviews have indicated this documentary is confusing as it is supposed to highlight a rarely acknowledged crime against women but the way it has been put together seems to defeat the serious nature of it...the re-enactments are unnecessarily graphic...if you are looking for simulated 'rape' sex scenes with little sound (just some whimpering)which are very explicit, vulva's, labia's all shown by not bad looking actresses then get this movie but don't expect to learn much about lesbian rape.
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This film is not about lesbian rape. This film is about female perpetrators of sexual assault. There are many downfalls of this film, and one of the most notable is the notion that a female who sexually assaults another female must be a lesbian and a woman who is assaulted by another woman is somehow a lesbian. Because none of the victims or perpetrators identify themselves as lesbian (in fact, there is hardly any verbal, environmental, or relational context for any of the rape scenes) perhaps the film makers unintentionally conflated female-to-female sexual assault and lesbian rape. The film dangerously interweaves incest, rape of a child, sexual assault and lesbian rape as if they were the same thing. But let's be clear: they are distinct forms of victimization.
I am not a denier of lesbian domestic or sexual violence. I have been an advocate in the anti-domestic and sexual violence field for 9 years and I am very familiar with the dynamics and effects of lesbian domestic violence and sexual assault and the larger societal context in which they take place.
I think I understand the film maker's intent to expose the existence of female-to-female sexual assault - the intent to explain and portray what some people think of as impossible. I even think I understand why they chose to show rape scenes over and over and over - as a way to prove the mechanics of how a woman can rape another woman. I think I can even understand the film makers' decision to use ... Read More
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I had seen this documentary on youtube and I had tried to purchase it for some time, when I finally found it on amazon.com, and upon actually seeing it, I was most impressed. I have seen many of the other reviews of this documentary, and the hostile nature of most of them calling it pornographic or disappointing or baulking at it in some other way, are either a), men who just don't get it and never will and don't want to accept that women are capable of these things too, yet they don't seem to hide from it when it's their wives or girlfriends abusing them, b), women who don't want to accept it.
It's so easy isn't it to laugh or critisize. To make a documentary like this takes guts and a real determination to get the truth heard. Of course lesbian rape happens, just like homosexual rape happens in the male community in prisons for example. What makes this so worthy of critism for telling the other side of it? I am hoping to publish a book which attacks women, which critisizes their attitudes in modern society, which may never see the light of day because no one wants to hear it, and so I have to admire this documentary and the makers not only for having the guts to make it in the first place, but for the quality of it too. I was always aware of the darker side of women unfortunately, and it made me laugh when a lot of these victims said they didn't think women were capable of such things. Well they are. And pregnancy is the most vindictive weapon that women can use ... Read More
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I DO UNDERSTAND THE SERIOUSNESS OF LESBIAN RAPE AND I DO AGREE THAT RAPE IS RAPE, BE IT A MALE OR FEMALE RAPIST. THE DOCUMENTARY DOES POINT THAT OUT CLEARLY AND GIVES REASONS WHY ONE SHOULD THINK SO. I'VE ALWAYS SAID TO MYSELF...IF SOMEONE PERFORMS ORAL SEX ON AN UNDER-AGED MINOR, THOUGH HE/SHE DID NOT GET PENETRATED, THE SEXUAL ACT STILL AMOUNTS TO RAPE.
HOWEVER, I DID NOT THINK THAT THE FILM DROVE THE MESSAGE HOME. DON'T GET ME WRONG, IM NOT SAYING THAT THEY DID NOT WORK HARD IN PUTTING THE FILM TOGETHER. WHAT IM SAYING IS THAT THE STORY LINES ARE ALL MESSED UP. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY JUST DON'T MAKE SENSE. SOME OF THE SCENES WERE INDEED GRAPHIC AND AT TIMES HUMILIATING AS I PICTURED MYSELF AND HOW I WOULD NOT WANT A WOMAN WITH A STRAP ON FORCING IT INTO MY MOUTH...AND AT OTHER TIMES, I HAD TO REWIND IT A COUPLE OF TIMES TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS GOING ON.
I BOUGHT THIS VIDEO ONLY BECAUSE I DO PARTICIPATE IN A JAIL MINISTRY AND WANTED TO KNOW SECOND HAND WHAT CHALLENGES THEY MAY BE FACING SO I MAY KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH INMATES ACCORDINGLY. WELL...THAT WENT THOUGHT HE DOOR. I WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND IT'S OBVIOUS TO ME THAT I'M IN THE WRONG BUSINESS. MAYBE I SHOULD BE INTO MARKETING OR SOMETHING.
APPARENTLY THAT'S WHERE ALL THE MONEY IS. WHOEVER MARKETED THIS INDEPENDENT FILM MUST HAVE HELPED THE SCRIPT WRITERS MAKE A KILLING. SAD TO SAY THAT THEY CAUGHT ME. THE WAY THAT THE WRITERS PORTRAYED THE FILM TO BE WAS NOT ... Read More
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