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A recent bibliometric analysis of the most cited violence against women authors shows that they are based in psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and medicine. Though these disciplines help enhance a rich empirical understanding of sexual assault and other forms of woman abuse, they lose sight of the ways in which broader social political, economic, and cultural forces shape various types of male-to-female violence. Reflecting on the author’s 30 years of empirical, theoretical, and policy work, the main objective of this paper is twofold: (1) to demonstrate that sociology needs to be granted equal status in the study of sexual assault and (2) to critique the growing amount of abstracted empiricist work on this harm.