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Rape on campus: Athletes, status, and the sexual assault crisis

  • Written by Lisa Wade, Professor of Sociology, Occidental College
imageFormer Vanderbilt football player Brandon Vandenburg was sentenced to 17 years after being convicted in a college rape case.AP Photo/Mark Humphrey

The feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon once argued that rape was not prohibited, but merely regulated. She was writing in 1989, four years before it became illegal to rape one’s spouse in...

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