There's something Seanan McGuire refuses to do to her characters ... and I think I need to check out her books now.
In the comments, 
nancylebov references a very interesting article from TOR: A need to deal wounds: Rape of men in Cherryh’s Union-Alliance novels. You should note that this is specifically the rape of male characters by female characters. The lead exhibits are Signy Mallory in Downbelow Station (spec. with regard to Josh Talley) and Ariane Emory I in Cyteen.
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I couldn't get into Cherryh, though, and not just because I am unwilling to read books where rape is a recurring theme.
People either like her prose style or they don't. We once had a tabletop RPG based in part on her Compact Space books (basically, the Chanur series), and a couple of players just couldn't get into her at all.
But her books have some of the more nuts-and-bolts details of what it's like to live on a starship or a space station, and her non-villainous female characters can be really great. (Actually, I really rather like the aforementioned Signy Mallory, because she's complicated and there are so very few women in charge of carrier-sized spaceships in SF. Ari I, on the other hand, is a gold-plated bastard bitch, and I use that term acknowledging its full baggage.)
I wish I could like Cherryh, because space stations, but alas.