Previous research has demonstrated the dramatic effect trauma can have on religiosity. This study sought to extend this understanding by examining how rape influences religious beliefs and behaviors as well as how religiosity influences acknowledgement and disclosure of rape. Th…
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Sexual violence is a cultural and global epidemic concerning domination and intersecting inequalities such as a race, class, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, and religion. Examination of sexual violence has revealed, that although sexual violence is a gender-ba…
The focus of this retrospective, descriptive study is to describe non-anogenital and anogenital injuries documented in over 5,000 sexual assault forensic medical examination (SAFME) reports of female patients. The study findings expand understanding of injuries documented follow…
Sexual trauma is linked with increased risk for psychiatric disorders, health problems, psychosocial difficulties, and negative emotional states, such as guilt and self-blame. Sexual trauma history, especially during childhood, also increases the risk of exposure to additional t…
Your Tenderness for Truth examines a spectrum of wounding personal violations in their entwinement with loving companionship and larger histories of colonial and imperial trespasses. With attention to what I term “intimate violations”—gendered transgressions against a person’s s…
Cardiovascular diseases represent a significant portion of deaths among women in the United States. Research has suggested that abuse and violence may be risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Nearly 1 in 3 women in the United States have experienced some form of sexual viole…
Sexual assault and victim blaming are a severe problem. Being sexually assaulted increases the risk of physical and mental health issues for the victims. When the victims are blamed for being sexually assaulted, their physical and mental health issues increase substantially. Man…
Wartime rape is as old as war itself. A common – and dangerous – misconception about wartime rape is that it is an unfortunate and inevitable by-product of war, and a consequence of moral disengagement during the chaos of conflict. What’s more disturbing is the patriarchal view …
The abuse of a woman’s body had been a normative practice since the recordings of Old Testament narratives. This study is designed to confront the inherent gender bias that contributed to the devaluation and abuse of a female body, especially for women in minority communities. H…
This dissertation is an analysis of rape policy in the following case studies: Eritrea since 1970; apartheid South Africa; contemporary South Africa; Peru from 1980 until 1992; contemporary Peru; East Pakistan in 1971; contemporary Pakistan; Rwanda in the 1990s; Bosnia-Herzegovi…
Since the feminist Ni Una Menos collective (est. 2015- ) first launched in Argentina, transnational protests against gender violence in Latin America have brought attention to the staggering rates of rape, domestic violence, and femicide in the region as a silent genocide. Femic…
Memorials are connected to the geographical and historical moment during which they were built. Despite the myriad of monuments and memorials created in the wake of World War II, the widespread rape of women, has been largely absent from this commemorative landscape. Now that ra…
Since 1988, the Department of Defense (DoD) has conducted wide-scale surveys about the sexual assault experiences of active-duty military members. Despite the growing body of research on this topic and widespread gender integration efforts for female soldiers, scholars still lac…
Systematic mass rape during conflict has for centuries met with global ignorance and political complacency despite its atrocious character. The conflicts in Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s altered the silence surrounding this long tolerated, dark underbelly of war. Applying Barry…
This dissertation examines the themes of rape and domestic violence in Zionist literature on the “Arab Question” published in Hebrew from the last years of Ottoman rule in Palestine through to the 1929 riots that erupted during the British Mandate. By bringing to light the impor…
God is markedly absent in the three rape narratives in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 34, Judges 19, and 2 Samuel 13). Drawing on methodologies from literary criticism and gender studies, this dissertation situates rape in its historical context, then analyzes a pattern of four eleme…
Postcolonial theory, while often reserved for analysis of modern political conditions, is often overlooked in biblical studies. The purpose of this thesis is to employ postcolonial analysis to the book of Ezekiel and demonstrate its value in biblical studies. Postcolonialism cri…
Rape is a widespread problem, particularly on college campuses. While most research has focused on female victims, male victimization is more common than previously thought. Studies reveal that gender may play an important role in rape myth acceptance, as male victims of rape co…