Hardship Duty provides insight into why sexual violence is such an intractable problem in the U.S. military. Based on interviews with women serving in the U.S. armed forces, this painful book shows that the cultural context and organizational arrangements of the military systematically place women at risk of sexual violence
Stephanie Bonnes, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Assistant Dean of the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences at the University of New Haven. Her scholarship on military harassment and sexual violence has won awards from the Sociologists for Women in Society; the Sex and Gender Section and the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section at the American Sociological Association; as well as the Division of Feminist Criminology and the Division of Victimology at the American Society of Criminology. Her work has been published in American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, Feminist Criminology, and Violence Against Women as well as media outlets such as the Washington Post.