In 1978, Greta Hibbard was twenty-two and living in rural Oregon. She had a two-year-old daughter, a minimum-wage job, and an unemployed husband. She was, she would later say, “living on peanut butter ...

In the early days of American feminism, Susan Brownmiller (in Against Our Will) proposed that rape is a crime through which men everywhere control and terrorize women. Evolutionary psychologists have ...

This summer, high-profile sex crimes trials claimed the headlines. These are important prosecutions and the coverage is understandable. Yet as I read story after story, I was struck by the number — ...

Sexual violence, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), includes any sexual act or attempt to obtain sex through coercion, regardless of the relationship between the parties. This ...

In the introduction of her memoir Trauma Plot, Jamie Hood invokes the ancient Greek legend of Philomela. After Philomela, a princess, is raped by her brother-in-law Tereus, she threatens to talk, ...