Once again, the nation confronts a potential #MeToo moment, with accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against President Trump’s…
We offer the first quantitative analysis of rape culture in the United States. Observers have long worried that biased news coverage of…
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The American woman suffrage movement remade the U.S. Constitution and effected the broadest expansion of voting eligibility in the nation's…
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Police exercise the state’s monopoly of legitimate use of force, a fundamental state function that shapes the construction of citizenship.…
Words tend to fail us most in two circumstances — in the face of profound evil and of transcendent decency. When Elie Wiesel first tried to…
Nancy Fraser’s path-breaking “Rethinking the Public Sphere” brought the term “subaltern counterpublics” into critical theoretical discourse…
Last year, at a global conference on sexual violence during war, many speakers agreed that the best way to deter such crimes was…