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 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

Building Sexual Misconduct Cases Against Powerful Men would be important to both men and women, especially those making policy decisions on a state or national level.