Introduction: on violence and on violence against women -- I am a knife: sexual harassment in close-up -- Trans voices: Who do you think you are? -- Trans and sexual harassment- the back story -- Feminism and the abomination of violence -- Writing violence - from modernism to Eimear McBride -- The killing of Reeva Steenkamp, the trial of Oscar Pistorius - sex and race in the courtroom -- Political protest and the denial of history - South Africa and the legacy of the future -- One long scream - trauma and justice in South Africa -- At the border.