MIchelle Bowdler discusses her book, Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto and her experience moving from victim to survivor to activist. She provides a powerful critique of how police continue to fail to investigate and mistreat victims of sexual assault.
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MIchelle Bowdler discusses her book, Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto and her experience moving from victim to survivor to activist. She provides a powerful critique of how police continue to fail to investigate and mistreat victims of sexual assault.
MIchelle Bowdler discusses her book, Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto and her experience moving from victim to survivor to activist. She provides a powerful critique of how police continue to fail to investigate and mistreat victims of sexual assault.
University of Windsor Distinguished Professor of Psychology Charlene Senn discusses her innovative and shockingly effective 12-hour empowerment self-defense program EAAA and its dissemination worldwide.
University Distinguished Professor of Psychology Rebecca Campbell reflects on the campaign to test and investigate Detroit rape kits and her successful efforts to combat sexual violence at Michigan State University.
World War II historian Ray Douglas talks about the aftermath of the publication of his rape memoir and how his experience shaped his research on rape, particularly of men, in armed conflict.
Psychology professor Jennifer Freyd discusses how the unwanted disclosure of repressed memories shaped her research on betrayal trauma, institutional betrayal, and her policy activism to promote equality and institutional courage.
Feminist philosopher Susan Brison discusses how surviving first an acquaintance rape while studying abroad and then a violent stranger rape in France shaped her theories of embodiment and the self as well as her commitment to free speech.
Pioneering feminist law professor, lawyer, political operative, and columnist Susan Estrich reflects on how grappling with her own rape shaped her life and work.
Political scientist Vanessa Tyson discusses speaking out against sexual violence, first against her father and then against Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax.
Terrorism scholar Jessica Stern turns her investigative powers on her past, her father, and herself to uncover the identity of the serial rapist who raped her when she was sixteen and the individuals and institutions complicit in his crimes.
Professor Tanya Serisier draws on her extensive knowledge of rape memoirs to craft her own narrative, inviting survivors to move beyond the constrained politics of speaking out to create a better context for listening.
Linda Martín Alcoff discusses how she and other survivors come to understand the impact of sexual violence and deploys her philosophical expertise to deconstructs the espistemic injustices of philosophers such as Foucault.
Psychology professor David Lisak discusses his experience as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, his research on serial rapists, and his activism on campus, in the military, and with survivors on death row.
MIchelle Bowdler discusses her book, Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto and her experience moving from victim to survivor to activist. She provides a powerful critique of how police continue to fail to investigate and mistreat victims of sexual assault.
