When I first heard the phrase “rape culture” years ago, it sounded so dystopian that I wanted to believe it was an exaggeration. But then came shocking revelations from all corners: the Catholic ...

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 — ...

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, ...

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