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.

Building Sexual Misconduct Cases Against Powerful Men edited by Shing-Ling S. Chen, Zhuojun Joyce Chen, and Nicole Allaire is an excellent anthology of qualitative inquiries that unravels the complexities of sexual misconduct cases, powerfully depicts the patriarchy in society, and raises our consciousness of social capital and the power of narratives that are used as tools to cover up crimes by powerful men.

• Chapter 1: Stigma and the "Weinstein Effect": A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Misconduct Allegations against Donald J. Trump and Harvey Weinstein in News MediaChapter 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 #MeTooChapter 4: Put Me In, Coach: Co-Building the Institutional Bias by Universities and Media in Sexual Misconduct Cases Involving Student-AthletesChapter 5: From “He Said, She Said” to “He Said, They Said”: Corroboration in Sexual Misconduct CasesChapter 6: Eroding Social Capital: Narrative Transformations of Al FrankenChapter 7: To Apologize, or Not to Apologize: Accounts of the Accused in Sexual Misconduct CasesChapter 8: Beyond Trauma-Informed: A Qualitative-Research Approach to Sexual Misconduct Cases