This dissertation explores how trauma and sexual injury have been deployed in feminist theories and theologies, with attention to conceptions of the human, structural violence, and social change. Part one of the dissertation details the evolution of contemporary trauma discourse in the West, from its origins in psychoanalysis during the early twentieth century, to its convergence with American feminist activism around sexual abuse and rape in the mid-twentieth century, and finally to its manifestations in contemporary feminist theories and theologies. The dissertation shows how trauma, particularly as a site of sexual injury, becomes a central yet contested site for feminist, black feminist, and queer theorizations of gender, structural violence, and political-ethical action. In part two, the dissertation exposes the limitations of relying on trauma as the primary explanatory framework for instances of structural violence, proposing instead a theological and ethical approach centered on persistent, everyday forms of harm, or ‘quotidian crises’. Thus, the dissertation departs from a conception of trauma anchored in extraordinary events, moving instead towards contexts characterized by prolonged and persistent violence, and grounded in queer, trans, and womanist theologies of the human.