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Helen Benedict

Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is author of three books on sexual assault, including Recovery: How to Survive Sexual Assault and Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes. She currently working on a book about women veterans of the Iraq War. Her latest article, on Salon.com, is “The Private War of Women Soldiers.”

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