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Rachel Louise Snyder
Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim, the novel What…
DiscoverRachel Louise Snyder at Bradford Lit Fest
Whether it’s the overt sexism of the 70s or the ‘lad culture’ of the 90s, the notion of men behaving badly is nothing new. But today we’re seeing a rising tide of what’s been labelled ‘toxic masculinity.’
This alarming behavioural trend is linked to some people’s idea of “manliness” and perpetuates attitudes of male domination, homophobia and aggression, particularly amongst young adults and teenagers. But what are the cultural pressures on men to behave in a certain way and how much is social media to blame for this toxic behaviour?
Panel chair Iman Amrani is joined by Dr Mark McGlashan, co-editor of Toxic Masculinity: Men, Meaning, and Digital Media, Rachel Louise Snyder, author of the award-winning No Visible Bruises, and Osman Yousefzada, author The Go-Between. They will discuss how and why it’s become so openly prevalent in Western society, the impact it has had on people’s lives and what can be done to support victims and stop the promotion of toxic attitudes online.
For more information and to book your ticket, please visit the event website here.
No Visible Bruises
NEW AND UPDATED — A NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, AND ESQUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR.
Love, desire, intimacy — we all know what these are meant to look like. But what happens when they descend into violence?
Award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder once believed all the common misconceptions about domestic violence: that it happens to an unlucky few; that it’s a matter of poor choices; that if things are dire enough, victims will leave. Her perception changed when she began talking to the victims and perpetrators whose stories she tells in this book.
Fearlessly reporting from the front lines of what the…
Women We Buried, Women We Burned
Following the acclaimed No Visible Bruises, a piercing account of the author’s childhood in an evangelical Christian community, her teenage escape, and her career as a reporter at the frontline of the global epidemic of violence against women.
Award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder has spent her career reporting on abuse that happens under the cover of ‘private life’. And yet the story of her own troubled family is one she has always kept locked away.
Snyder was eight when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the…
