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How common are sexual harassment and rape in the United States?

  • Written by Sarah Cook, Professor & Associate Dean, Georgia State University

“I have moved in the world as a woman and a man. I never realized the absence of fear, and the feeling of invulnerability until I lived as a man.”

These were activist Max Beck’s parting words to my Psychology of Women course in 2005. Beck, born intersexed, lived in a body manipulated by medical intervention to be a girl and then...

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