Book Event: "The Work of Rape" by Rana M. Jaleel

Rana M. Jaleel is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis. "The Work of Rape" tracks how feminist interventions in the “gender atrocities” of the 1990s-era ethnic wars—which established rape as a human rights violation, a crime against humanity, and a form of genocide— have traveled across bodies of law and social geographies. It asks how the all-too-familiar terms of rape culture, consent, and coercion fare if we refuse to imagine gender and sexual justice by disavowing conditions of colonialism, empire, capitalism, and war.

In conversation with Leti Volpp, Chandan Reddy, and Emily Thuma. Leti Volpp is the Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law and Director, Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley. Chandan Reddy is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Emily Thuma is an associate professor of politics and law at the University of Washington Tacoma and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington Seattle.

Location: On campus in Hart Hall 3201 or via Zoom: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iZRUQ-W8Q2y76cnOwbvzLQ

For more information please contact: Kaitlin Dabdoub (kndabdoub@ucdavis.edu)

Event sponsored by: Cultural Studies Graduate Group. Co-sponsored by: Department of Asian American Studies; Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies; Center for Race and Gender (UC Berkeley)