Hummer, Robert and Patricia Yancey Martin. “Fraternities and Rape on Campus.” Gender and Society December 1989: 457-473. The goal of this research was to “analyze the group and organization practices that create in fraternities an abusive social context for women (Hummer 1989). Hummer and Martin examined fraternity dynamics associated with a main focus on rape and sexual coercion of women in fraternities. The researchers work centers on a case study of an alleged gang rape at Florida …showed first 75 words of 466 total…

…showed last 75 words of 466 total…this article are pretty strong. When I first read the article I could not believe that some one could do this to a girl. The graphic nature of this crime made me sick! The vision of the crude words and symbols on her thighs really stuck in my mind. The part that bothers me the most is that even though women are abused by fraternities they still help to attract new members for the fraternity.