Women who are victims of intimate partner violence have been acknowledged by the discipline of psychology for several decades, and Battered Women’s Syndrome (BWS) is now recognized as a mental disorder that can develop in victims of domestic violence as a result of long-term abuse ( Rennison and Planty, 2003). It is also established that men’s conditioning to be more powerful than women perpetuates gender violence, making women victims ( Elbert et al., 2018 American Psychiatric Association, 2022). Women who defend themselves are frequently detained by the batterer. Even when women retaliate or engage in mutual aggression, the woman is more likely to be physically and emotionally harmed. It is widely recognized as a kind of gender-based violence, with women being victims of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse at a higher rate than men.
Aimed at students, parents, faculty members, university leaders, service providers, and lawmakers, Campus Sexual Assault seeks to put an end to the silence around sexual trauma by giving voice to those closest to it and providing tools for others to hear with-and to act on.Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a grave social issue that violates women’s rights, and it is recognized as a significant global health concern that infringes on women’s well-being across all countries and cultures ( Ellsberg et al., 2015). Germain weaves together women's narratives to show the women not as victims per se, but as individuals with the power to overcome these traumatic experiences. She reframes conversations about sexual violence and student agency on American college campuses by drawing insight directly from the stories of how survivors responded individually to attacks, as well as how and why peers, family members, and school, medical, and civil authorities were (or were not) engaged in addressing the crimes. Germain focuses attention on the post-sexual assault experiences of twenty-six college women. A principle reason for this lack of understanding is that the voices of women who have experienced campus sexual assault have been largely absent from academic discourse about the issue. Despite more than fifty years of anti-rape activism and over two decades of federal legislation regarding campus sexual violence, sexual assault on American college and university campuses remains prevalent, under-reported, and poorly understood.
A 2014 report issued by the White House Council on Women and Girls included the alarming statistic that one in five female college students in the United States experience some form of campus sexual assault.
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