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June 6 - August Epp, Before the Meeting

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Toews, Miriam. Women Talking. Bloomsbury, 2018. eBook.

• A note at the beginning of the book provides context for the real-life events that inspired the book.

• Between 2005 and 2009, a Mennonite colony in Bolivia called Manitoba Colony experienced attacks on girls and women throughout the night.

• Some colonists speculated ghosts, demons, or even God were responsible for the attacks, though some accused the women and girls of making up the attacks altogether.

• Eight men were found to have been using animal anesthetic to knock out and sexually assault the victims, and they were convicted in a Bolivian court in 2011.

• In 2013, similar assaults and other sexual abuse were still happening in the colony, indicating that the problem was never actually solved.

• The author claims that Women Talking is a reaction through fiction...

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