Feminist Theories of Sexual Violence

Renee Heberle is professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program in Law and Social Thought at the University of Toledo, Ohio. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1996. Her publications include “Rethinking the Social Contract: Masochism and Masculinist Violence” in the volume Theorizing Sexual Violence (2009) that she co-edited with Victoria Grace. Her essay, “Sexual Violence” was published in the Oxford Handbook on Gender, Sex, and Crime. She is also editor of Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno (2006) and has published numerous other peer reviewed articles. She was the coordinator of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program at the University of Toledo from 2010 to 2024.