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

Judith Mason, The Man Who Sang and the Woman Who Kept Silent (1998). This image appears on the cover of the Autumn 2014 issue of Signs, which contains a cluster on Women in Postconflict and Postgenocide Societies

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