Tara Murtha is senior writer at Philadelphia Weekly, where she focuses on news, crime, policy and social justice issues with particular interest in sexual violence, gender/media issues and reproductive rights. Murtha is an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma and teaches journalism at Temple University. She is currently working on Bobbie Gentry: Ode to Billie Joe for Bloomsbury Academic’s critically acclaimed 33 1/3 music book series, to be published in 2014. Follow her on twitter at @taramurtha.
Gosnell is the result of politicizing women’s health care, and his case, in turn, has been used to further politicize women’s health care.
Striking parallels between a rape case from almost exactly thirty years ago and the Steubenville case make for a good opportunity to assess how reporting on rape has changed—or not.
For men to be trained not to rape, they have to learn what rape is.
