How Many More Women?

'If anyone can change things, in court or through the pages of this powerful book, it is these two fearless feminist lawyers.' - Susie Alegre, author of Freedom to ThinkIn this powerful and accessible exploration of our legal systems, two internationally-acclaimed human rights lawyers expose the way in which the law is used to silence women and show how we can fight back.We are in a crucial moment: women are breaking through the cultural reticence around gender-based violence. But just as survivors have begun to feel empowered to speak out, a new form of systematic silencing has made itself more evident: rich and powerful men are using teams of lawyers to suppress allegations and prevent newspaper stories from running. Individual women, advocacy groups and journalists find themselves fighting against censorship. The law is being wielded to reinforce the status quo of silence that existed before #MeToo.If women cannot speak about their abuse - and journalists are fearful of telling their stories - then how can we understand the problem of gender-based violence in our society? And how can we even begin to end it?In How Many More Women? internationally acclaimed human rights lawyers, Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida, examine the broken systems and explore the changes needed in order to ensure that women's freedom, including their freedom of speech, is no longer threatened by the laws that are supposed to protect them.