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…
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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…
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…
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…
This dissertation explores the nature of narratives that construct the crime of rape. My controlling question is: If we create meaning in language as I believe we do, why have recent revisions in the linguistic constructions of the crime, such as reforms in rape laws and in inte…
In this dissertation, I critique what I perceive to be a lack in the method of determining meaning currently in use in Biblical Studies in the United States, in that the current dialogical method not only fails to take into account adequately the role of subjectivity in the dete…
In February 2002, the Appeals Chamber of International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted three Serbian paramilitary leaders for crimes against humanity that included systematic rape and enslavement of women during war in Bosnia in 1992. Known as the Kunarac jud…
This dissertation asserts that systematic sexual violence was used as public policy by the Serbian government in Bosnia during the conflict of 1992-1995 to effect ethnic cleansing and genocide. Systematic sexual violence must be recognized as public policy in order for the globa…
This research pertains to sexual violence against women (VAW) in contexts of inter-ethnic violence in South-Asia, India, and examines victim and community rape blame attributions made by Muslims and Hindus. Specifically the study focused on assessing attitudes that predict blame…
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…
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…
Bu çalışma, insan onuru, kırılganlık ve ötekileştirme kavramları bağlamında uzun süreli belgesel fotoğraf çalışmalarını konu almaktadır. Çalışmanın temel sorusu, her dakikada 2.3 milyon fotoğrafın çekildiği bir çağda, kırılgan grupların ve ötekileştirilen kişilerin uzun süreli g…
Conflict rape has for a long time had its role in war. Throughout the conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo the number of women, men, and children who have been victimized by these crimes is significant. The reasons why these crimes ha…
This thesis explores both works of fiction and non-fiction through which several Middle Eastern and Arab-American women writers have rebelled against traditional religious and ethical standards of their cultures in order to assert their individuality and independence. The writer…
The objective of this study is to examine the phenomenon of sexual violence as genocide by performing a comparative historical analysis of narratives of survivors of the Armenian and Rwandan genocides. Specifically, this study seeks to answer the following questions: 1) How and …
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…
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…
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…