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The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice

Kate Millett

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Description:On October 26, 1965, the body of a sixteen-year-old girl named Sylvia Likens was found on a dirty mattress in a basement in Indianapolis, Indiana. Starved, mutilated, covered with cigarette burns, the victim had been imprisoned and tortured to death by a gang of teenagers led by a woman named Gertrude Baniszewski, in whose care Sylvia and her younger sister, Jenny, had been left while their parents went off to work the state fairs in the Midwest.Gertrude's band of tormentors included some of her own seven children and two neighborhood boys. On the abdomen of the young girl had been carved the words "I am a prostitute and proud of it."With mesmerizing detail, Millett re-creates this American tragedy. Shocking and poignant, "The Basement" rocks some of our most basic notions of family, morality, and the cultural repression of female sexuality.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice. To get started finding The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: On October 26, 1965, the body of a sixteen-year-old girl named Sylvia Likens was found on a dirty mattress in a basement in Indianapolis, Indiana. Starved, mutilated, covered with cigarette burns, the victim had been imprisoned and tortured to death by a gang of teenagers led by a woman named Gertrude Baniszewski, in whose care Sylvia and her younger sister, Jenny, had been left while their parents went off to work the state fairs in the Midwest.Gertrude's band of tormentors included some of her own seven children and two neighborhood boys. On the abdomen of the young girl had been carved the words "I am a prostitute and proud of it."With mesmerizing detail, Millett re-creates this American tragedy. Shocking and poignant, "The Basement" rocks some of our most basic notions of family, morality, and the cultural repression of female sexuality.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice. To get started finding The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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