Quote:
"While the debate [in Women Talking] is fascinating in its particulars—and could be used as a model for debate practice—there's something rather formal in the result, betraying the artifice of the original source. The women in Bolivia were heroic for coming forward to testify against their rapists (men they knew) in court, and in so doing they broke with every tradition they knew. They put themselves 'beyond the pale' of their own conditioning and told their stories in front of the world. Their act took tremendous courage. Toews' made-up debate seems like an intellectual exercise in comparison."
-- Sheila O'Malley

Source:
O'Malley, Sheila. "Women Talking." Review of Women Talking. RogerEbert.com, December 23, 2022.