Johanna E. Foster
Bio:
Johanna E. Foster, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Helen McMurray Bennett Endowed Chair of Social Ethics at Monmouth University in New Jersey, USA. Her major areas of expertise are in intersectional feminist theories of gender; identity and U.S. social movements; and the ethics and politics of mass incarceration with an emphasis on women in confinement. Most recently, her work has focused on the politics of resistance and media representation among Yazidi women survivors of the ISIS genocidal attacks of 2014. Her research has appeared in Gender & Society, Women’s Studies International Forum, Sociological Forum, Research in Political Sociology, and Equal Opportunities International.
If women have historically been silenced and ignored about experiences of conflict-related sexual violence, the inverse is now true: survivors are being pressured to share their stories, emphasizing heinous details of sexual abuse and little else.
In Rural Tamil Nadu, Child Marriage Was Already Rampant. Then Came the Pandemic.
