![]() A first-contact narrative, Dawn follows Lilith Iyapo, a Black American woman who wakes up aboard the spaceship of an alien species called the Oankali. In Dawn, nuclear war has rendered the Earth uninhabitable and has killed off large populations of humans and animals. That same year, Octavia Butler published Dawn, the first novel in her Xenogenesis series. Most people, she found, did not understand that rape and sexual assault occur not only when an individual does not consent but also when they are unable to give consent. Despite federal legal codes that clearly delineate what constitutes rape and sexual assault, Koss’s research indicated that many women did not consider their individual experiences as rape, bringing to light a larger problem in public discourse. ![]() college campuses had been victims of sexual assault, a statistic that would prove consistent with the entire female population in the United States. It revealed the harrowing statistic that one in four women on U.S. In 1987, social scientist Mary Koss published the first national study on rape and sexual assault. ![]()
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