Full Description
Powerfully written and theoretically grounded, Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy collects a range of perspectives from sexual assault survivors with backgrounds in academia. The contributors in this collection connect their experiences of sexual violence to their research and work within the academy as well as their lives outside of it. Contributors analyze the events surrounding their experiences with sexual violence as well as the cultural, social, and political effects. Their analyses are located within discussions of recent cultural events and the larger contexts of race, ethnicity, class, age, gender, sexuality, region, and nation.
Contents
Chapter One: Seeing Through the Lens of Troublesome Tropes: Refusing to See Brown and Black Women as Victims of Sexual Violence
Melinda Mills
Chapter Two: My Grandfather is Dying, Kavanaugh Just Got Appointed Supreme Court Justice, and I Should Probably Not Tell You These Stories
Ari Burford
Chapter Three: A Revisionist History of Loving Men: Exploring Consent and Sexual Violence in Romantic Relationships
Lena Ziegler
Chapter Four: "I Don't Know What's Real and What's Not": How Journaling Helped Me Cope with Trauma
Hélène Bigras-Dutrisac
Chapter Five: Jailbait: At the Intersection of Teenage Desire and Statutory Rape
Marissa Korbel
Chapter Six: Does Any Woman Have Just One Survivor Story? One Vagina's Monologue
Sally J. Kenney
Chapter Seven: Survival Stories: Transforming Terror to Power
Lynn Z. Bloom
Chapter Eight: Layers: Academia, Autobiography, and Narrative as Refuge and Struggle
Katrina M. Powell
Chapter Nine: Speaking Out, Public Judgements and Narrative Politics: Researching Survivor Stories and (Not) Telling My Own
Tanya Serisier
Chapter Ten: Professing to Power
Donna L. Potts
Chapter Eleven: Beaches, Books, Baseball, and Being One of the Guys
Katherine Chelsea
Chapter Twelve: The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival
Lee Skallerup Bessette
Chapter Thirteen: Claiming Conclusively: Speaking Back to Campus Title IX
Courtney Cox
