A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF LOVING MEN - Lena Ziegler (pre-order)
ABOUT THE BOOK
Lena Ziegler doesn't know how to talk about love. In 2017, five years after she had been raped by a stranger on the morning after her twenty-third birthday, she came to a startling realization: three out of four of her serious relationships also involved rape that she had never acknowledged, or named, up until that point. She spent the next five years researching sexual violence and excavating the darkest parts of herself and her life to compose A Revisionist History of Loving Men, a personal and critical exploration of the sexual scripts that exist between women and men, and the normalization of sexual violence as a routine part of heterosexual relationships in the landscape of American rape culture. Braiding memoir, scholarly research, fragmented lyricism, and cultural commentary, this book is as much a reclamation of the self, as it is an invitation for all of us to reimagine what we consider "normal" when it comes to love and sex, and how easy it is to lose oneself along the borderlines.
PRAISE FOR A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF LOVING MEN
“A Revisionist History of Loving Men is beautifully rendered proof that the moments we live through live on inside us, permeating flesh and psyche; trauma is an ever-shifting narrative offering no clear answers, no easily won happy endings—but the opportunity to reclaim one's own story in its barest joys, horrors, and contradictions. Ziegler expertly braids the raw truth of her lived experiences with sharp and vital scholarly critique on cultural myths of love, sexual violence, and the failings of language to represent their many nebulous intersections. This book is nothing short of an exorcism, radiant and burning: a house fire, a signal flare, a beacon.”
—Erin Slaughter, author of A Manual for How to Love Us
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lena Ziegler is a multi-genre writer with a special interest in hybrid work. Her writing has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Indiana Review, Literary Orphans, Miracle Monocle, Duende, Dream Pop Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, Gambling the Aisle and others. She is a co-founder of the literary journal and press The Hunger. She holds an MFA from Western Kentucky University and a PhD from Bowling Green State University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband. You can find her online at www.lenaziegler.com.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: September 30, 2025
Print Length: 210 pages
Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.5 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-41-7
ABOUT THE BOOK
Lena Ziegler doesn't know how to talk about love. In 2017, five years after she had been raped by a stranger on the morning after her twenty-third birthday, she came to a startling realization: three out of four of her serious relationships also involved rape that she had never acknowledged, or named, up until that point. She spent the next five years researching sexual violence and excavating the darkest parts of herself and her life to compose A Revisionist History of Loving Men, a personal and critical exploration of the sexual scripts that exist between women and men, and the normalization of sexual violence as a routine part of heterosexual relationships in the landscape of American rape culture. Braiding memoir, scholarly research, fragmented lyricism, and cultural commentary, this book is as much a reclamation of the self, as it is an invitation for all of us to reimagine what we consider "normal" when it comes to love and sex, and how easy it is to lose oneself along the borderlines.
PRAISE FOR A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF LOVING MEN
“A Revisionist History of Loving Men is beautifully rendered proof that the moments we live through live on inside us, permeating flesh and psyche; trauma is an ever-shifting narrative offering no clear answers, no easily won happy endings—but the opportunity to reclaim one's own story in its barest joys, horrors, and contradictions. Ziegler expertly braids the raw truth of her lived experiences with sharp and vital scholarly critique on cultural myths of love, sexual violence, and the failings of language to represent their many nebulous intersections. This book is nothing short of an exorcism, radiant and burning: a house fire, a signal flare, a beacon.”
—Erin Slaughter, author of A Manual for How to Love Us
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lena Ziegler is a multi-genre writer with a special interest in hybrid work. Her writing has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Indiana Review, Literary Orphans, Miracle Monocle, Duende, Dream Pop Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, Gambling the Aisle and others. She is a co-founder of the literary journal and press The Hunger. She holds an MFA from Western Kentucky University and a PhD from Bowling Green State University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband. You can find her online at www.lenaziegler.com.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: September 30, 2025
Print Length: 210 pages
Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.5 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-41-7
ABOUT THE BOOK
Lena Ziegler doesn't know how to talk about love. In 2017, five years after she had been raped by a stranger on the morning after her twenty-third birthday, she came to a startling realization: three out of four of her serious relationships also involved rape that she had never acknowledged, or named, up until that point. She spent the next five years researching sexual violence and excavating the darkest parts of herself and her life to compose A Revisionist History of Loving Men, a personal and critical exploration of the sexual scripts that exist between women and men, and the normalization of sexual violence as a routine part of heterosexual relationships in the landscape of American rape culture. Braiding memoir, scholarly research, fragmented lyricism, and cultural commentary, this book is as much a reclamation of the self, as it is an invitation for all of us to reimagine what we consider "normal" when it comes to love and sex, and how easy it is to lose oneself along the borderlines.
PRAISE FOR A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF LOVING MEN
“A Revisionist History of Loving Men is beautifully rendered proof that the moments we live through live on inside us, permeating flesh and psyche; trauma is an ever-shifting narrative offering no clear answers, no easily won happy endings—but the opportunity to reclaim one's own story in its barest joys, horrors, and contradictions. Ziegler expertly braids the raw truth of her lived experiences with sharp and vital scholarly critique on cultural myths of love, sexual violence, and the failings of language to represent their many nebulous intersections. This book is nothing short of an exorcism, radiant and burning: a house fire, a signal flare, a beacon.”
—Erin Slaughter, author of A Manual for How to Love Us
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lena Ziegler is a multi-genre writer with a special interest in hybrid work. Her writing has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Indiana Review, Literary Orphans, Miracle Monocle, Duende, Dream Pop Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, Gambling the Aisle and others. She is a co-founder of the literary journal and press The Hunger. She holds an MFA from Western Kentucky University and a PhD from Bowling Green State University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband. You can find her online at www.lenaziegler.com.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: September 30, 2025
Print Length: 210 pages
Dimensions: 5.5 × 8.5 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-41-7