Search results
Sep 14, 2022 · Women Talking, her 7th novel, uses the horrific rapes as the basis for an explanation of how women speak when they are living in a place that denies them that right. It’s an austere novel that...
- 2 min
- Esther Zuckerman
Feb 10, 2023 · Michael Gibson. Women Talking. The incidents of Manitoba Colony. They became known as the ‘ghost rapes’ of Bolivia – a terrifying description of an even more horrific reality.
- Miriam Toews
- 2 min
Jan 27, 2023 · I covered the attacks on Mennonite women in Bolivia that inspired 'Women Talking.'. Here's what I want viewers of the movie to know.
- 2 min
- Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
Mar 12, 2023 · Women Talking is based on a true story, one that was fictionalized by author Miriam Toews. Toews herself was born in a Mennonite community in Canada; she left when she turned 18.
- Senior News Editor
Plot. Women Talking opens with a note from the author in which she describes her novel as both "a reaction through fiction" to true-life events and "an act of female imagination." The true-life events Toews refers to took place in the Manitoba Colony, a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia.
Mar 31, 2019 · Miriam Toews' new novel is based on an awful true story: The drugging and rape of women in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia. Toews says she wanted to show the women as real humans, not isolated...
Dec 23, 2022 · 'Women Talking,' inspired by a true story of rape in a Mennonite community, examines patriarchal violence and the way women and men handle it. Can Hollywood? Despite some missteps, it’s hard not...
