Abstract
This chapter is designed to understand the effects of policy proposals and the representations they necessarily contain. It shares findings from an investigation of violence policies to uncover embedded assumptions and predominant meanings constructed through the policies. The chapter will inspire further research about the discursive construction of men and women in violence policies. For instance, Wheaton's policy defines assault as forcing, threatening, or coercing an individual into contact against the individual's free will with or without the individual's Sexual violence, the policies assert, is severe and pervasive, serious violation, one of the most serious violations, a form of personal violence that affects all of us. Sexual violence is ubiquitous on college campuses, as on policy asserts, sexual assault is a problem on campus. Sexual Assault means an actual or attempted contact with another person without that person's consent.
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