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Campus sexual assault : college women respond / Lauren J. Germain.
Van Pelt Library LB2345.3.R37 G47 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Germain, Lauren J., 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rape in universities and colleges--United States.
- Rape in universities and colleges.
- Women college students--Crimes against--United States.
- Women college students.
- Rape victims--Rehabilitation--United States.
- Rape victims.
- Rape victims--United States--Psychology.
- Rape victims--Psychology.
- Rape victims--Rehabilitation.
- Women college students--Crimes against.
- Psychology.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 126 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Despite more than fifty years of anti-rape activism and over two decades of federal legislation regarding campus sexual violence, sexual assault on American college and university campuses remains prevalent, under-reported, and poorly understood. A principle reason for this lack of understanding is that the voices of women who have experienced campus sexual assault have been largely absent from academic discourse about the issue. In Campus Sexual Assault, Lauren J. Germain focuses attention on the post-sexual assault experiences of twenty-six college women. She reframes conversations about sexual violence and student agency on American college campuses by drawing insight directly from the stories of how survivors responded individually to attacks, as well as how and why peers, family members, and school, medical, and civil authorities were (or were not) engaged in addressing the crimes. Germain weaves together women's narratives to show the women not as victims, but as individuals with the power to overcome these traumatic experiences. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- What we don't know about campus sexual assault
- The paradox of embodied agency
- Managing identity
- Telling friends and family
- Seeking justice
- The beautiful process of empowerment
- Agency and campus sexual assault.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421419053
- 142141905X
- OCLC:
- 921839840
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