In the Journals – Militarization
Officers wearing a traditional late 1960s uniform (left) and a new demilitarized uniform featuring a blazer (right), Riverside County Sheriff, 1969 by …
Contested Memory. The ‘Comfort Women’ Statue in Berlin and Dealing with Sexual Violence in War
The unveiling of a statue in memory of the victims of sexual violence committed by the Japanese Army in World War II …
Sierra Leone’s laws to protect women have unintended consequences, by Luisa Schneider
Age-of-consent law is complex. If it is set too high, there’s a risk that it will undercut young people’s agency. If it …
White Patriarchy Gets a Pacifier
In the era of #MeToo, we need collective liberation, not the tears and tantrums of white male entitlement. In less than the …
Black Women and the Fight against Sexual Violence
We cannot fully comprehend today’s activism without the complex histories of Black women’s struggles against sexual violence. Several years ago I interviewed …
Gastronomie, Inegalité, Fraternité
For French chefs, inequality begins in culinary school. The kitchen is heaving with activity—it is a Friday and we are in the …
Disciplinary Violence
#MeToo is an opening for change—but can anthropologists look beyond the media moment to confront sexual violence and transform the discipline? Those …
The Invisible Walls of the Whisper Network
#MeToo makes us all responsible for confronting sexual harassment. Let me begin by saying that it has been difficult for me to …
Sexual Violence in the Clinics and the Courts
Medico-legal systems must change how they respond to victims. Many survivors of sexual assault neither seek out health care nor report to …
The Disavowal of Henrietta Schmerler
Anthropology’s decades-long misrepresentation of this story of sexual violence should inform the discipline’s relationship to #MeToo. This is the story of a …
Call for Proposals: #MeToo
As stories of sexual assault and misconduct continue to make news headlines, Anthropology News invites anthropologists to reflect on the #MeToo movement …
Beyond the Criminal Discourse in Title IX Procedures
On September 22, 2017, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rolled back the Title IX guidelines implemented under the Obama Presidency. The shocking …
#MeToo: A Crescendo in the Discourse about Sexual Harassment, Fieldwork, and the Academy (Part 1)
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Bianca C. Williams. Sunday night, October 15, I watched women across my social media timeline bravely and vulnerably …
Violence and Vulnerability in Anthropology
Three years ago, after being sexually assaulted while conducting dissertation research in Iceland, I joined others in insisting that our discipline take …
Engagements with Ethnographic Care
On care and self-care as an anthropologist and rape crisis advocate. I came to my work with survivors of sexual violence, initially, …
The Prominence of Consent
Is understanding consent as “simple as tea?” Increasingly, we have begun to think that it is common sense to see rape and …
Applying Anthropology for a Safer World
Claim our bodies, claim our right, Take a stand, take back the night! Across the globe, the month of April is a …
The Self at Stake: Thinking Fieldwork and Sexual Violence
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Alix Johnson] I don’t intend to write about surveillance and suspicion, but then I spend my first …
Anna Hedlund: Sharp lines, blurred structures: Politics of wartime rape in armed conflict
Whenever there is armed conflict, sexual violence and rape, often against women and girls, soon emerge as central concerns in the global …
Keulen: een urban legend?
© APA/AFP/Roberto Pfeil Door Peter Versteeg Het nieuwe jaar was nog tamelijk vers toen verontrustend nieuws bekend werd. Met oudejaarsnacht zouden vele …
A review of Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Sterns book Sexual violence as a weapon of war? Perceptions, prescriptions, problems in the Congo and beyond, by Nadja Piiroinen (2015).
During the spring term I taught African Studies at Uppsala University. Students created a blog Uppsala African Reviews where they published reviews …
The Character of Sexual Harassment at Cons
By Emma Louise Backe At an event where hundreds of individuals from around the country converge in capes and costumes, the symbols …
Anthro in the news 6/1/15
Not funny In an article in the Huffington Post, Christa Craven, assistant professor of anthropology and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and …