POLS 3930 Special Topics: Violence Against Women

POLS 3930 Special Topics: Violence Against Women

POLS 3930 Special Topics: Violence Against Women

Alice Sebold Lucky (New York: Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company 2002).

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Rape and trauma
Sebold, Alice. Lucky. New York: Little, Brown, & Co., 1999/2002. Read pp. 1-90.
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*Herman, Judith. “Terror.” Chapter 2 in Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—
from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
National Center for PTSD. “PTSD Basics: Understanding PTSD.” Available online at
www.ptsd.va.gov/public/understanding_ptsd/booklet.pdf.

Trauma and interventions

Sebold, Alice. Lucky. New York: Little, Brown, & Co., 1999/2002. Read pp. 91-201.
*Recommended: Martin, Patricia Yancey. “Hospitals—The Reluctant Partner.” Chapter 4 in
Rape Work. New York and London: Routledge, 2005.

Anti-rape activism
Sebold, Alice. Lucky. New York: Little, Brown, & Co., 1999/2002. Read pp. 202-end.
*Schulhofer, Stephen J. “Disappointing Reforms” and “The Search for Solutions.” Chapters 2
and 4 in Unwanted Sex: The Crime of Intimidation and the Failure of Law. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1998.
*Recommended: Erderly, Sabrina Rubin. “The Crime Against Women That No One
Understands.” Self (November 2008): 190-95.

Survivors who are often neglected
*Pelka, Fred. “Raped: A Male Survivor Breaks His Silence.” In Gender Violence:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Laura O’Toole and Jessica Schiffman, 209-214.
New York: NYU Press, 1997.
*Scarce, Michael. “Male-on-Male Rape.” In Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex,
Violence, and Equality, edited by Jodi Gold and Susan Villari, 39-46. New York:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
*Girshick, Lori. “Introduction” and “Speaking the Unspeakable.” Introduction and Chapter 1 in
Woman-to-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape? Boston: Northeastern Univ.
Press, 2002.
Rennison, Callie Marie. “Privilege, Among Rape Victims. Who Suffers Most From Rape and
Sexual Assault in America?” New York Times Dec. 21, 2014. Available online at

Rape on college campuses
Short paper #1 due
*Lisak, David and Paul M. Miler. “Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected
Rapists.” Violence and Victims 17, no. 1 (2002): 73-84.
*Katz, Jackson. “It Takes a Village to Rape a Woman.” Chapter 9 in The Macho Paradox: Why
Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc.,
2006.
“Dear Colleague Letter.” U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, 2011. Available
online at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201104.html