![]() Additionally, Hirsch and Khan co-led an ethnographic component of the project that resulted in more than 150 interviews, focus groups, and extensive participant observation, which forms the foundation of the book. SHIFT included a one-time survey of over 1,600 undergraduates in addition to a daily survey of 500 undergraduates regarding relationships, sex, stress, social activities, and substance abuse. Sexual Citizens is based on research from the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) project at Columbia University, which Hirsch co-directed. The book approaches sexual assault from an ecological public health perspective, but at its core, I think it is also an argument for dismantling power disparities within institutions. Hirsch and Shamus Khan seek to understand why campus sexual assault happens and what can be done to prevent it in the future by identifying its social roots. ![]() In their book, Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, Jennifer S. ![]() It is also about who holds power individually and institutionally. Sexual violence is both a cause and a consequence of inequality. ![]()
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