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Accompanying Janet Halley’s Currents essay, “The Move to Affirmative Consent“
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Signs Articles Related to Consent, Rape, and Sexual Violence
Beverly Allen, Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape: A Response from the Field, Signs, 2002
Rochelle Semmel Albin, Psychological Studies of Rape, Signs, 1977
Pauline B. Bart and Patricia H. O’Brien, Stopping Rape: Effective Avoidance Strategies, Signs, 1984
Elizabeth Bernstein, Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns, Signs, 2010.
Lynda E Boose, National Countermemories: Crossing the River Drina: Bosnian Rape Camps, Turkish Impalement, and Serb Cultural Memory, Signs, 2002
Pascale R. Bos, Feminists Interpreting the Politics of Wartime Rape: Berlin, 1945; Yugoslavia, 1992–1993, Signs, 2006
Hannah Britton andd Lindsey Shook, “I Need to Hurt You More”: Namibia’s Fight to End Gender-Based Violence, Signs, 2014.
Kirsten Campbell, Legal Memories: Sexual Assault, Memory, and International Humanitarian Law, Signs, 2002
Community Action Strategies to Stop Rape, A Rape Prevention Program in an Urban Area, Signs, 1980
Lara Cox, Standing Up against the Rape Joke: Irony and Its Vicissitudes, Signs, 2015
Irene Diamond, Pornography and Repression: A Reconsideration, Signs, 1980
Ann Ferguson, Sex War: The Debate between Radical and Libertarian Feminists, Signs, 1984.
Estelle B. Freedman and Barrie Thorne, Introduction to ‘The Feminist Sexuality Debates, Signs, 1984
Irene Hanson Frieze 1983, Investigating the Causes and Consequences of Marital Rape, Signs, 1983
Rosemary Marangoly George, (Extra)Ordinary Violence: National Literatures, Diasporic Aesthetics, and the Politics of Gender in South Asian Partition Fiction, Signs, 2007
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Jennifer Fish and Tamara Shefer, Gendered Violence: Continuities and Transformation in the Aftermath of Conflict in Africa, Signs, 2014
Janice Haaken, Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape’: The Seductions of Theory, Signs, 2002
Anna Hájková, Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating the Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Signs, 2013
Christine Helliwell, “It’s Only a Penis”: Rape, Feminism, and Difference, Signs, 2000
Laura Hengehold, Remapping the Event: Institutional Discourses and the Trauma of Rape, Signs, 2000
Darlene Clark Hine, Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West, Signs, 1989
Jessi Lee Jackson, Sexual Necropolitics and Prison Rape Elimination, Signs, 2013
Ratna Kapur, Brutalized Bodies and Sexy Dressing on the Indian Street, Signs, 2014
Jonneke Koomen, “Without These Women, the Tribunal Cannot Do Anything”: The Politics of Witness Testimony on Sexual Violence at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Signs, 2013
Barbara S. Lindemann, “To Ravish and Carnally Know”: Rape in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts, Signs, 1984
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory, Signs, 1982
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence, Signs, 1983
Katarzyna Marciniak, Pedagogy of Anxiety, Signs. 2010
Carine M. Mardorossian, Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape, Signs, 2002
Beth E. Richie, A Black Feminist Reflection on the Antiviolence Movement, Signs, 2000
Diana E. H. Russell and Nancy Howell, The Prevalence of Rape in the United States Revisited, Signs, 1983
Amanda Lock Swarr, Paradoxes of Butchness: Lesbian Masculinities and Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Africa, Signs, 2012
Louise du Toit, Shifting Meanings of Postconflict Sexual Violence in South Africa, Signs, 2014
Carole S. Vance, and Ann Barr Snitow, Toward a Conversation about Sex in Feminism: A Modest Proposal, Signs, 1984
Lorraine Bayard de Volo and Lynn K. Hall, “I Wish All the Ladies Were Holes in the Road”: The US Air Force Academy and the Gendered Continuum of Violence, Signs, 2015
Explore Further:
Signs@40: The Signs 40th-anniversary virtual issue contains a curated table of contents on “Violence and Conflict.”
The topic model of the journal traces a “Sexual Violence” topic over time: