Grigoriadis adds context to the often-polarizing topics with numerous first-person accounts.
In researching the book, she interviewed more than 200 students at 200 universities, speaking with young women, campus activists, and victims, as well as young men who deny the accusations of rape and assault made against them, and the young men’s families. Her focus on acquaintance rape rather than stranger rape highlights campus cultural issues such as alcohol and drug use and institutions such as fraternities and sororities that contribute to increased rates of sexual violence. She uses the story of Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University student who carried her mattress around campus after the administration failed to expel her alleged rapist, as a launching pad to define consent and assault, which Grigoriadis argues are murky concepts.
National Magazine Award–winning journalist Grigoriadis explores sexual assault, rape culture, and sexual politics at American universities.
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