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Sameena
Mulla
Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Sameena Mulla is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She uses anthropological approaches to examine the intersections of law and health-care in U.S. interventions into sexual violence, and the ways in which they are invested in regimes of gender, race, and power.
Books
In her first book, The Violence of Care, Mulla draws on four years of participatory research in a Baltimore emergency room to reveal the realities of sexual assault response in the forensic age. Taking an approach developed at the intersection of medical and legal anthropology, she analyzes the ways in which nurses work to collect and preserve evidence while addressing the needs of sexual assault victims as patients.
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