The writer of Tamar's Cry, Pamela Cooper-White, took a topic such as violence against women and the Church and transformed it in such a way as to do not instigate a sense of defense of the forces that have unintentionally committed such crimes which, when placed on a spectrum, may seem rather irrelevant. Cooper-White has taken a complex and multifaceted issue that has been forged across millennia of societies and cultures and given an incredibly eloquent and simple book that informs readers almost as well as identifying the fundamental issues and roots of violence against women. Issues that I find real, and not a hateful manifesto from a hypersensitive feminist. Although the book is quite dense and interesting, I feel particularly drawn to its second chapter (Images of Women: Pornography and the Connection to Violence) which identifies six myths regarding women. From these six misconceptions one could easily assume that not only women, but also children and anyone with a sexual orientation different from the average heterosexual male, are not...