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About this book
Survivors of campus sexual assault share the stories of how they confronted and overcame the trauma of being attacked.
A 2014 report issued by the White House Council on Women and Girls included the alarming statistic that one in five female college students in the United States experiences some form of campus sexual assault. 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, underreported, and poorly understood. A principal 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 per se but as individuals with the power to overcome these traumatic experiences.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. What We Don’t Know about Campus Sexual Assault
- 2. The Paradox of Embodied Agency
- 3. Managing Identity
- 4. Telling Friends and Family
- 5. Seeking Justice
- 6. The Beautiful Process of Empowerment
- 7. Agency and Campus Sexual Assault: The Way Forward
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index