Tag: sexual violence

Redefining Rape: Estelle Freedman on the History of Sexual Violence

By Natalia Petrzela March 10, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard 2013) charts the complex and shifting meaning of sexual violence in the United States. It is unique in focusing on the legal and political, rather than personal and experiential, dimensions of American rape culture. Centering on the […]

Jack the Ripper: Case Never Closed

By Julia Laite September 9, 2014 Sexual Labour, United Kingdom 0 comments

This article by Notches editor Julia Laite appeared in the September 9, 2014 issue of The Guardian. The latest development in a near-150-year-old saga made headlines this week: an armchair detective has used DNA evidence to claim that Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper, the infamous figure who murdered and mutilated women in […]