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Book SynopsisPowerfully 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.
Trade ReviewLaura Gray-Rosendale's collection, Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy, offers an extraordinary range of accessible and personal essays told from across the academy. The authors bravely share their stories while also providing scholarly analysis of how these experiences altered their professional futures and offering insight about what happens when such experiences collide with the academy at various levels. This book will be a wonderful resource for professors teaching on Title IX and Me Too related topics. -- Donna Freitas, author of Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
Laura Gray-Rosendale has introduced and assembled a vibrant and eloquent collection of essays further animating the diverse and devastating disclosures of the Me Too Movement, specifically in academic settings. Gray-Rosendale and her contributors are each survivors. Distinguished by elegance in writing, Gray-Rosendale’s work combines the personal and the political, the experiential and the analytic. The result compels a new and deeper understanding of sexual violence against women, and how this violence is often also intertwined with racism and/or homophobia. Likewise, the limits of Title IX enforcement, and legal recourse are thrown into sharp relief. We feel ourselves weeping at the suffering caused by the violence, some of it casual and thoughtless, some of it vicious, and all of it revealing the hatred of women at its base. -- Bettina Aptheker, University of California, Santa Cruz
Table of ContentsChapter 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
