Powerfully written and theoretically grounded, Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy collects a range of perspectives from sexual assault survivors with backgrounds in academia. The contributors in this collection connect their experiences of sexual violence to their research and work within the academy as well as their lives outside of it. Contributors analyze the events surrounding their experiences with sexual violence as well as the cultural, social, and political effects. Their analyses are located within discussions of recent cultural events and the larger contexts of race, ethnicity, class, age, gender, sexuality, region, and nation.
Laura Gray-Rosendale is President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow and director of STAR English at Northern Arizona University.
Chapter One: Seeing Through the Lens of Troublesome Tropes: Refusing to See Brown and Black Women as Victims of Sexual Violence Melinda Mills Chapter Two: My Grandfather is Dying, Kavanaugh Just Got Appointed Supreme Court Justice, and I Should Probably Not Tell You These Stories Ari Burford Chapter Three: A Revisionist History of Loving Men: Exploring Consent and Sexual Violence in Romantic Relationships Lena Ziegler Chapter Four: "I Don't Know What's Real and What's Not": How Journaling Helped Me Cope with Trauma Helene Bigras-Dutrisac Chapter Five: Jailbait: At the Intersection of Teenage Desire and Statutory Rape Marissa Korbel Chapter Six: Does Any Woman Have Just One Survivor Story? One Vagina's Monologue Sally J. Kenney Chapter Seven: Survival Stories: Transforming Terror to Power Lynn Z. Bloom Chapter Eight: Layers: Academia, Autobiography, and Narrative as Refuge and Struggle Katrina M. Powell Chapter Nine: Speaking Out, Public Judgements and Narrative Politics: Researching Survivor Stories and (Not) Telling My Own Tanya Serisier Chapter Ten: Professing to Power Donna L. Potts Chapter Eleven: Beaches, Books, Baseball, and Being One of the Guys Katherine Chelsea Chapter Twelve: The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival Lee Skallerup Bessette Chapter Thirteen: Claiming Conclusively: Speaking Back to Campus Title IX Courtney Cox
Laura Gray-Rosendale has introduced and assembled a vibrant and eloquent collection of essays further animating the diverse and devastating disclosures of the Me Too Movement, specifically in academic settings. Gray-Rosendale and her contributors are each survivors. Distinguished by elegance in writing, Gray-Rosendale's work combines the personal and the political, the experiential and the analytic. The result compels a new and deeper understanding of sexual violence against women, and how this violence is often also intertwined with racism and/or homophobia. Likewise, the limits of Title IX enforcement, and legal recourse are thrown into sharp relief. We feel ourselves weeping at the suffering caused by the violence, some of it casual and thoughtless, some of it vicious, and all of it revealing the hatred of women at its base. -- Bettina Aptheker, University of California, Santa Cruz Laura Gray-Rosendale's collection, Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy, offers an extraordinary range of accessible and personal essays told from across the academy. The authors bravely share their stories while also providing scholarly analysis of how these experiences altered their professional futures and offering insight about what happens when such experiences collide with the academy at various levels. This book will be a wonderful resource for professors teaching on Title IX and Me Too related topics. -- Donna Freitas, author of Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
