Sarah Weinman

Sarah Ann Ottens was born on the 9th of February, 1953 to her parents Robert and Myra Ottens in Morrison, Illinois, which is where she would grow up as the oldest of five children.

Her younger sister Susan told Sarah Weinman for The Guardian back in 2016, quote, "I idolized Sarah.

She forged the way for me in life.

She was very outgoing and social.

This extraordinary story has remained largely untold until now.

When last year, author, journalist, New York Times columnist, among many other things, Sarah Weinman, published Without Consent, a landmark trial and the decades-long struggle to make spousal rape a crime.

Sarah joins us today to talk about this trial, the struggle against marital rape, and intersecting connections that these efforts had with the Missouri anti-violence movement.

Sarah? Sarah, thank you so much for being here.

And looking at this original case and then all of the legal aftermath thereafter was a really interesting and harrowing lens into American culture, frankly.

Thank you for explaining that.

I have to admit that I've had a little bit of a Sarah Weinman summer where I have just binged

your books.