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Formation : a woman's memoir of stepping out of line
- Title
- Formation : a woman's memoir of stepping out of line / Ryan Leigh Dostie.
- Author
- Dostie, Ryan Leigh
- Publication
- New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 358 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- The author describes her time as a soldier in the United States Army where she was raped by a fellow soldier and had to cope with PTSD, isolation, and commanders who did not believe her story.
- "Raised by strong women in a restrictive, sheltered Christian cult in New England, Ryan Dostie never imagined herself on the front lines of a war halfway across the globe. But then a conversation with an Army recruiter in her high-school cafeteria changes the course of her life. Hired as a linguist, she quickly has to find a space for herself in the testosterone-filled world of the Army barracks. She's able to hold her own until the unthinkable happens and she is raped by a fellow soldier. Struggling with trauma and a command hierarchy that doesn't trust her story, Dostie finds herself fighting through her isolation amid the challenges of an unexpected war. What follows is a sweepingly beautiful, riveting, and inspiring story of one woman's extraordinary journey to prove her worth, physically and mentally, in a world in which the odds are stacked against her."--Dust jacket.
- Subjects
- Rape victims
- Women linguists
- Women soldiers
- Rape victims > United States > Biography
- Sexual harassment in the military > United States
- Women linguists > United States > Biography
- Autobiographies
- Women soldiers > Crimes against > United States
- Biographies
- Dostie, Ryan Leigh
- Women soldiers > United States > Biography
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Contents
- Violation. How it happened ; What they want ; Exodus ; Quarters ; Classical conditioning ; Spoliation of evidence ; Shock and awe ; The last push before the end -- Conception. In the beginning ; Event horizon ; Suck it the fuck up, Buttercup ; Cry "havoc" ; Redacted ; Welcome ; JRTC ; Consumption -- Invasion. Entrenching ; Indiscriminate ; Filicide ; Respite ; The way we're trained ; Uninspired ; Ace of hearts and clubs ; What isn't mine ; Rage against the machine ; Monster in a box ; The way we break ; Reconstruction ; Getting out of Baghdad ; The ghosts of Al Kut ; Two miles out -- Desecration. Homecoming ; Your ending, my beginning ; Fight me, bitch ; The warworn's battle cry ; Just say the word ; Interim ; Tubthumping ; Belletristic ; The thing in my vagina ; Interim II ; The bat ; Dirty little whore ; The breaking point ; Interim III ; Closing.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10237
- ISBN
- 9781538731536
- 1538731533
- LCCN
- 2019286527
- OCLC
- 1102321651
- Author
- Dostie, Ryan Leigh, author.
- Title
- Formation : a woman's memoir of stepping out of line / Ryan Leigh Dostie.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Dostie, Ryan Leigh. Formation. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019. 9781538731512 (OCoLC)1101625197
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10237