Building Sexual Misconduct Cases against Powerful Men

Nicole Allaire is lecturer in the Department of English at Iowa State University. Shing-Ling S. Chen is professor of mass communication in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. Zhoujun Joyce Chen is professor emeritus in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa.

Chapter 1: Stigma and the "Weinstein Effect":  A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Misconduct Allegations against Donald J. Trump and Harvey Weinstein in News Media
Chapter 2: Cliff or Cosby?: The Jury and ‘Happy Objects’ in the 2017 Trial of Commonwealth vs. William Henry Cosby, Jr.
Chapter 3: Won’t Someone Think of the Perpetrator?!:The Narrative Framework of the Accuser Killjoy in the Age of #MeToo
Chapter 4: Put Me In, Coach: Co-Building the Institutional Bias by Universities and Media in Sexual Misconduct Cases Involving Student-Athletes
Chapter 5: From “He Said, She Said” to “He Said, They Said”: Corroboration in Sexual Misconduct Cases
Chapter 6: Eroding Social Capital: Narrative Transformations of Al Franken
Chapter 7: To Apologize, or Not to Apologize: Accounts of the Accused in Sexual Misconduct Cases
Chapter 8: Beyond Trauma-Informed: A Qualitative-Research Approach to Sexual Misconduct Cases