sexual violence

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/16/2021
  

  Harvard Law Prof Rejects Historical Consensus on ‘Comfort Women,' Historians Respond

  "There has been so much scholarship produced in the 30 years since the first survivor came forward and it’s almost as if Professor Ramseyer's decision is to just ignore all of the debate -- as if he’s the first person to come into this," said Alexis Dudden, an expert on modern Japanese and Korean history.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/7/2021
  

  South Korean Court Orders Japan to Pay Compensation for Wartime Sexual Slavery

  A South Korean court ordered the Japanese government to pay direct restitution to 12 women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. Japan has rejected the court's authority.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/17/2020
  

  The Rape Kit’s Secret History

  This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime.

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• A Scorching History of Rape in America

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Extremities Unicorn Theater 6 East Street Stockbridge, MassachusettsThe first seventeen minutes of Bill Mastrosimone’s savage play Extremities keep theatergoers on the edge of their seats. A stranger invades the home of a young woman he knows is alone and attempts to rape her. He is kneeling over her on the living room rug, his thick legs pinning her to the floor, his hands ripping at her clothes. She utters ear splitting screams of terror, flails her exposed legs wildly in the air and begs for her life.Then, suddenly, she is able to reach for a can of bug repellent and sprays her assailant in the face, disabling him. She springs to her feet, gets behind him and, before he can recover, ties him up. She tosses him into her empty fireplace, ties the iron grill to the wall and holds him captive, determined to kill him in revenge for what he did to her.

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• You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (Or Have You?)

  by Ruth Rosen

  Originally posted on TomDispatch.com

• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1-24-13
  

  Rebecca Solnit: A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year

  Originally posted on TomDispatch.comRebecca Solnit has written a version of this essay three times so far, once in the 1980s for the punk magazine Maximum Rock’n’Roll, once as the chapter on women and walking in her 2000 book Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and here. She would love the topic to become out of date and irrelevant and never to have write it again.

• SOURCE: Diverse Issues in Higher Education
  1-6-13
  

  Elwood Watson: Sexual Assault is Gender Blind

  Dr. Elwood Watson is a professor of history and African-American studies at East Tennessee State University.The fact is that 2012 was a horrible year in terms of sexual assaults on college campuses.In June 2012, Trey Malone, a junior at Amherst College and a distinguished student both academically and athletically, took his own life after he was unable to deal with the immense trauma and intense emotions he suffered after being the victim of rape by a co-ed. After his suicide, it was discovered that Malone’s experience was not an aberration. On the contrary, he was one of a number of students on the prestigious, leafy, upscale, distinguished liberal arts institution who had been the victim of such a horrific sexual violation. His death made national headlines, caused the Amherst college community to erupt, (the campus president, Carolyn Martin, aggressively denounced the perpetrators of such crimes and led the effort in instituting policies and programs to combat such behavior) sparked widespread discussion on the campus and, once again,  brought the issue of rape and sexual assault to the forefront of national debate.