Considerable research has been conducted in the discipline of psychology (broadly) and trauma (in particular) on the effects of sexual violence on the emotional, mental and physical health of women and children (Herman 1992; Perry 2006). I aim to expand this discussion by labeling sexual violence as...

This paper, as part of my dissertation more broadly, will examine the 2008 raid on the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints through the lens of queer and feminist theories as well as through notions of religious freedom. Using ethnography as a vehicle to complement and buttress my theoretical...

This paper looks at the debates over same-sex and gender-neutral marriage in states like California, Iowa and Vermont. In analyzing these debates it is easy to assume that opposition from the electorate was largely due to homophobia. However, a closer reading suggests that opposition was driven...

In this paper we examine discourses of gender and sexuality around federal sex education policy in the United States from two distinct points in the policymaking process: the policy development stage and the implementation stage. Using a grounded theory approach, we examine congressional...

Existing scholarship on post-conflict peace duration fails to account for the level of sexual violence within conflicts as a predictor of the risk of returning to war. This paper presents a new theory, linking the prevalence of rape to post-conflict instability, with the resumption of fighting...

This paper provides a comparative case study of the ways that sex offender registration requirements (commonly known as 'Megan's Law' statutes) influence criminal case processing in sexual assault cases. The study draws on interviews from 120 county-based rape crisis centers in six states to...

The U.S.–Mexico border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country – a border culture - Gloria Azandula. Every day thousands of illegal immigrants...