This explosive investigation reveals the profound failures of the Title IX system and identifies concrete, surprisingly simple steps we can take to Protect students.
Bedera proves that ending Sexual Violence is within our grasp--and dares us to be courageous enough to take action..
Equally heartbreaking and optimistic, On the Wrong Side makes it easy to imagine life-changing interventions for the next generation of students by proposing specific solutions to the structural problems of Title IX.
In doing so, she reveals that the system tasked with ending gender inequality on campus only intensifies it, upending survivors\' lives and threatening the degrees that brought them to college in the first place.
Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetrators, and the administrators who oversaw their cases, sociologist Nicole Bedera exposes the structures that predictably punish Survivors who come forward in the service of protecting--or even rewarding--their perpetrators.
On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system.
The debate over campus Sexual Violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices.
This explosive investigation reveals the profound failures of the Title IX system and identifies concrete, surprisingly simple steps we can take to Protect students
