Introduction to the Special Issue: Feminist Framings of Sexual Violence on College Campuses

Largely a result of student activists (Krause, Miedema, Woofter, & Yount, 2017) and commitment from President Obama's administration, there is a growing movement in the United States acknowledging the prevalence of gendered sexual violence in society and on college campuses.Feminist family scholars possess specialized knowledge that we believe can make substantive progress toward eradicating sexual violence from college campuses.Anisa began the discussion around the time the Dear Colleague letter addressing sexual violence in schools and on college campuses was published (U.S. Department of Education, 2011).According to attendee feedback, the event was enormously successful; participants urged us to follow up with additional efforts and to reach out to colleagues who could not attend.Unique Contributions of this Special Issue This is the only known special issue in the social science journals to bring together in one collection a wide variety of feminist approaches to understand sexual violence on college campuses.Echoing our feminist family scholarship legacy, this special issue raises awareness of the resurgence of feminist activism taking place across the nation, which we hope inspires our readers to produce similar scholarly work and to engage in activism informed by theory and research.Faculty feminist action in response to rape culture on college campuses.Retrieved from http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/shguide.pdf U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights.Retrieved from http://bclawreview.org/review/53_4/the-process-that-isdue-preponderance-of-the-evidence-as-the-standard-of-proof-for-university-adjudications-of-studenton-student-sexual-assault-complaints Wilson, R. (2016, November 11) Trump administration may back away from Title IX, but campuses won't.