Reclaim the Night | IMGpapers 1980

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Though Eve was made from Adam's rib, Nine months he lay within her crib; How can a man of woman born Thereafter use her sex with scorn? For though we bear the human race, To us is given but second placeAnd some men place us lower still By using us against our will.

If we choose to walk alone, For us there is no safety zone, If we're attacked we bear the blame, They say that we began the game. And though you prove your injury, The judge may set the rapist free: Therefore the victim is to blame, Call it nature, but rape's the name.

Chorus:

Reclaim the night and win the day We want the right that should be our own, A freedom women have seldom known: The right to live, the right to walk alone, witnour ical A husband has his lawful rights, Can take his wife whene'er he likes; And courts uphold, time after time, That rape in marriage is no crime. The choice is hers, and hers alone, Submit, or lose your kids and home. When love becomes a legal claim, Call it duty, but rape's the name.

And if a man should rape a child, It's not because his spirit's wild: Our system gives the prize to all Who trample on the weak and small. When fathers rape, they surely know Their kids have nowhere else to go. Try to forget, don't ask us to Forgive them, they know what they do. (Chorus) When exploitation is the norm, Rape is found in many forms: Lower wages, meaner tasks, Poorer schooling, second-class. We serve our own, and like the men We serve employers. It follows then That body's rape is nothing new — But just a servant's final due. We've raised our voices in the past, OUT NOW: new Socialist Challenge pamphlet.

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Hogh we can segregation b requality at A WOMAN'S

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