Over the Law: Rape and the Seduction of Popular Politics

As in many parts of the world, rape in India is rarely criminalized in practice. While Indian law houses an ever-expanding set of provisions against sexual violence (with notable exceptions for marital and same-sex rape), rape charges are frequently suppressed by the criminal justice system, processed with excruciating slowness, or can lead to out-of-court settlements. What is remarkabl…

Bad Men, Good Men, Bystanders: Who Is the Rapist?

In an influential article, Carine Mondorossian (2002, 753) lamented that a “lopsided focus” on victims in public discussions of rape tended to support a belief that victims of sexual assault suffered from a “self-defeating personality disorder.” This lopsided focus also left questions related to perpetrators—and by extension, actions aimed at preventing future assaults—out of focus. Res…

Theorizing Wartime Rape: Deconstructing Gender, Sexuality, and Violence

Throughout the history of warfare, rape and other forms of sexual violence against children, women, and men have been extremely widespread and prolific.1 Despite long-standing legal and political silences, rape in war has endured as a “lasting legacy” of violent conflict in artistic, documentary, and cinematic representations throughout history, albeit almost exclusively when perpetrate…

The Rape Prone Culture of Academic Contexts: Fraternities and Athletics

About two decades ago, feminist sociologists stopped focusing on rape and sexual assault even though rapes and their destructive toll on girls and women did not end. Rape did not diminish appreciably and neither did the legal justice system dramatically improve its treatment of victims. Perhaps this is why 80 percent of women college students and 67 percent of non-college women fail to …

Forty Years after Brownmiller: Prisons for Men, Transgender Inmates, and the …

When Susan Brownmiller published Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape in 1975, few anticipated that it would become a feminist classic published in more than a dozen languages. Even fewer imagined that it would foreshadow a proliferation of public discourse on sexual assault in an array of institutions, including the family, the workplace, higher education, sports, the Church, and the…

An Open Letter from Black Women to the Slutwalk

The Slut Walks emerged in 2011 after a police officer’s comment to University of Toronto students which equated women’s “slutty” dress with the probability of sexual assault. His comments inspired global protests against sexual profiling, slut shaming and sexual assault. BLACK WOMEN’S BLUEPRINT Posted on Friday, September, 23, 2011 We the undersigned women of African descent and antiviolence…

Women in Power: Undoing or Redoing the Gendered Organization?

A growing literature examines the organizational factors that promote women’s access to positions of organizational power. Fewer studies, however, explore the implications of women in leadership positions for the opportunities and experiences of subordinates. Do women leaders serve to undo the gendered organization? In other words, is women’s greater representation in leadership positions…

Evaluating the environment as a global public good

Global public goods are defined as non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Global environmental challenges, such as biodiversity conservation or climate change mitigation, fall squarely into this category. This contribution focuses on the specific dimensions of evaluating the provision of global public goods in light of experiences from the Global Environment Facility. As global environmental…

Evaluating collaboration: The creation of an online tool employing Q methodology

The continued prevalence of different forms of collaborative working within public policy requires adaption in evaluation practices. In recent years evaluation toolkits, audits and guides have migrated online, but with varying success. At their worst, such tools can offer a disengaging user experience, limited coverage of issues or normative bias. This article outlines POETQ, designed t…

Reframing how evaluators think and act: New insights from Ernest House

This essay examines some of the core concerns of House’s approach to evaluation, with specific reference to his latest book Evaluating: Values, Biases and Practical Wisdom. This is a difficult book to characterise in a few pithy statements. Part memoir, part evaluation novella and part scholarly textbook. Arguably, this is one of the most unique discourses on evaluation in the past deca…

Integrating theory-based evaluation and process tracing in the evaluation of …

Over the last two decades, gender-responsive budgeting has gained prominence as an effective tool for governments to fulfil gender commitments and the realisation of women’s rights. To date, however, limited empirical evidence exists of the impact and effectiveness of gender budget initiatives. This article proposes and demonstrates the integration of theory-based evaluation and process…

OPALesence: Epistemological pluralism in the evaluation of a systems-wide c…

The evaluation of complex systems-wide public health interventions requires evaluation research that is underpinned by theory. This article presents and discusses the trans-disciplinary evaluation research framework developed to support the evaluation of a South Australian program called OPAL (Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle). The aim is to provide insights into the research design, me…

Exploring ways to reconcile accountability and learning in the evaluation of …

While evaluation is seen as a mechanism for both accountability and learning, it is not self- evident that the evaluation of niche experiments focuses on both accountability and learning at the same time. Tensions exist between the accountability-oriented needs of funders and the learning needs of managers of niche experiments. This article explores the differences in needs and expectati…

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