#MeToo, Statutory Rape Laws, and the Persistence of Gender Stereotypes
Autor/in:
Garfield Tenzer, Leslie
Quelle: Utah Law Review, (2019) , S 117–157
Inhalt: Using the example of statutory rape laws, this article explains how movements for increased equality between men and women can fail to meet their stated goals. The article begins by exploring traditional statutory rape laws, which stereotypically gendered perpetrators and victims. It follows with a discussion of the political forces behind the nation-wide change to neutralize gendered statutes. The article dedicates significant attention to the flaws of gender-neutral statutory rape laws, which, by removing gender designations of victims and perpetrators, grant prosecutors unchecked discretion to choose which partner to charge in cases of mutual consent to the same prohibited conduct. Today prosecutors are three times more likely to charge males with statutory rape than they are to charge females with the crime. Parents of females’ alert authorities of prohibited sexual activity of their daughters at a rate that is largely disproportionate to that of parents of males. Prosecutorial stereotyping as it pertains to prohibited sexual intimacy between consenting teens has created an unfortunate return to the female-victim paradigm that proponents of gender-neutral statutory rape laws sought to erase. The article concludes with a recommendation for achieving a more balanced application of gender-neutral laws.
Schlagwörter:#MeToo; Feminimus; feminism; gender stereotypes; Gesetzgebung; law; sexual assault; sexual violence; sexuelle Gewalt; Stereotype
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
The Penalties for Self-Reporting Sexual Harassment
Autor/in:
Hart, Chloe G.
Quelle: Gender & Society, 33 (2019) 4, S 534–559
Inhalt: Although sexual harassment in the workplace is illegal, it often goes unreported. this study employs causal evidence to evaluate one deterrent to reporting: bias against women known to be sexual harassment targets. I theorize about the form this bias takes and test the argument with a national survey experiment run in five waves from october 2017 to February 2018, where participants were asked to propose employment outcomes for an employee with one of four harassment experiences. Participants were less likely to recommend a woman for promotion if she self-reported sexual harassment relative to otherwise identical women who experienced nonsexual harassment or whose sexual harassment was reported by a coworker. the woman who self-reported sexual harassment experienced normative discrimination: that is, the promotion bias was significantly mediated by perceptions that she was less moral, warm, and socially skilled than the woman whose coworker reported her sexual harassment. these results indicate that women may hesitate to report sexual harassment because they rightly perceive that doing so could cause them to experience bias. Yet they also suggest that bias can be avoided if a bystander reports the harassment. Finally, exploratory analyses suggest that in the wake of #Metoo this bias may be fading.
Schlagwörter:#MeToo; Arbeitsplatz; bias; discrimination; Diskriminierung am Arbeitsplatz; Gender; Normen; sexism; Sexismus; sexual harassment; sexuelle Belästigung; Stereotype; violence; workplace
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
#WeTooInScience : Sexual Harassment in Highe Education Institutions and Research Organizations
Autor/in:
Avveduto, Sveva; Badaloni, Silvana; Hermann, Claudine; et al.
Quelle: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR; 2019. 248 S
Inhalt: This volume presents a series of analyses that range from the presentation
of the cognitive framework from the theoretical point of view, to that of the
(few) data available.
We grouped the themes into four parts
1. What do we know?
2. How to address the problem: solutions
3. How to address the problem: prevention
4. Wider perspectives
The first part with the contributions of Claudine Hermann, Colette
Guillopé, Sylvie Cromer, Ilaria Di Tullio, Francesca Torelli, provides a crosssection
of the state of the analyses carried out in Italy and abroad.
Knowing the terms of the question and the boundaries of the problem is
the preliminary step to find the tools to deal with it and, hopefully, solve it.
What solutions can be envisaged? What can be done? In the second part Ann
Olivarius, Chiara de Fabritiis and Fernie Maas discuss the issues referring to
the different contexts.
The third part deals with the question of possible solutions to the problem
from the prevention side, such as the development of guidelines and
regulations that prevent problems from arising, rather than punish them later.
Lorenza Perini, Laura Chlebos, Agata Sangianantoni, Valeria De Paola, Ingrid
Hunstad, Maria Luisa Chiofalo and Tiziana Metitieri present some of the
possible areas of intervention to avoid repeating episodes that are no longer
tolerable.
The fourth part collects some contributions of selected authors that widen
the perspective between history and discrimination. Mirella Orsi, Anna Lisa
Somma, Sona Grigoryan, Antonella Nappi, Federica De Luca, Mariella Paciello,
Pietro Greco and Monica Zoppè contributed in this final part.
Schlagwörter:awareness; cultural change; discrimination; gender equality policy; Gleichstellungsbeauftragte; harassment; Intervention; Italien; Prävention; prevalence; sexual assault; sexual harassment; university
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Inhalt: This book examines the role of gender in political conflicts worldwide, specifically the intersection between gender and terrorism. Political violence has historically been viewed as a male domain with men considered the perpetrators of violence and power, and women as victims without power. Whereas men and masculinity are associated with war and aggression, women and femininity conjure up socially constructed images of passivity and peace. This distinction of men as aggressors and women as passive victims denies women their voice and agency. This book investigates how women cope with and influence violent politics, and is both a descriptive and analytical attempt to describe in what ways women are present or absent in political contexts involving political violence, and how they deal with gender assumptions, express gender identities, and frame their actions regarding political violence encountered in their lives. The book looks to reach beyond the notion of women as victims of terrorism or genocide without agency, and to recognize the gendered nature of political conflicts and how women respond to violence. This book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science, sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies, academics in terrorism studies and gender studies, government officials, NGOs, and professionals working in areas of violent conflict.
Schlagwörter:Geschlechterrollen; Terrorismus
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
From radical black feminism to postfeminist hashtags: re-claiming intersectionality
Autor/in:
Villesèche, Florence; Muhr, Sara Louise; Sliwa, Martyna
Quelle: ephemera. theory & politics in organization, 18 (2018) 1, S 1–16
Inhalt: The term ‘intersectionality’ was coined by legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s. Originally, it referred specifically to the vulnerable position of black women victims of domestic violence in the socio-legal context of the United States. In a nutshell, Crenshaw argues that the particular situation of black women cannot be equated with that of white women victims or with the larger discrimination faced by the black population, and thus the legal apparatus is not conceived to appropriately consider their cases. In addition, an underlying aim was to contest the assumed ‘colour-blindness, neutrality and objectivity’ of the criminal justice system in the US (Nash, 2008: 2; Crenshaw, 1989). Besides its root in the legal field, the term ‘intersectionality’ mirrors debates brought about by radical black feminists in the previous decades and which centres on a critique of a western, white feminism that claims universal reach.
Schlagwörter:binary; epistemology; Feminism; Gruppe; Identität; Identity; Individuum; Intersectionality; Kategorie; Konstruktion; Konstruktivismus; Medien; Postfeminism; Postkolonialismus; race; Social aspects; Theorie; theory
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Herausgeber/in:
Risman, Barbara J.; Froyum, Carissa; Scarborough, William J.
Quelle: Cham: Springer (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research), 2018. 1 online resource
Inhalt: This handbook provides a comprehensive view of the field of the sociology of gender. It presents the most important theories about gender and methods used to study gender, as well as extensive coverage of the latest research on gender in the most important areas of social life, including gendered bodies, sexuality, carework, paid labor, social movements, incarceration, migration, gendered violence, and others. Building from previous publications this handbook includes a vast array of chapters from leading researchers in the sociological study of gender. It synthesizes the diverse field of gender scholarship into a cohesive theoretical framework, gender structure theory, in order to position the specific contributions of each author/chapter as part of a complex and multidimensional gender structure. Through this organization of the handbook, readers do not only gain tremendous insight from each chapter, but they also attain a broader understanding of the way multiple gendered processes are interrelated and mutually constitutive. While the specific focus of the handbook is on gender, the chapters included in the volume also give significant attention to the interrelation of race, class, and other systems of stratification as they intersect and implicate gendered processes.
Schlagwörter:Gender; Handbuch
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Coping and Sexual Harassment : How Victims Cope across Multiple Settings
Autor/in:
Scarduzio, Jennifer A.; Sheff, Sarah E.; Smith, Mathew
Quelle: Archives of sexual behavior, 47 (2018) 2, S 327–340
Inhalt: The ways sexual harassment occurs both online and in face-to-face settings has becomemore complicated. Sexual harassment that occurs in cyberspace or online sexual harassment adds complexity to the experiences of victims, current research understandings, and the legal dimensions of this phenomenon. Social networking sites (SNS) are a type of social media that offer unique opportunities to users and sometimes the communication that occurs on SNS can cross the line from flirtation into online sexual harassment. Victims of sexual harassment employ communicative strategies such as coping to make sense of their experiences of sexual harassment. The current study qualitatively examined problem-focused, active emotion-focused, and passive emotion-focused coping strategies employed by sexual harassment victims across multiple settings.
Schlagwörter:Active emotion-focused coping; Arbeitsklima; bullying; cyber violence; Interview; Online sexual harassment; Passive emotion-focused coping; Problem-focused coping; qualitative analysis; sexual harassment; sexuelle Belästigung; work culture
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
What’s in a name? Theorising the Inter-relationships of gender and violence
Autor/in:
Boyle, Karen
Quelle: Feminist Theory, 20 (2018) 1, S 19–36
Inhalt: This article explores the representational practices of feminist theorising around gender and violence. Adapting Liz Kelly’s notion of the continuum of women’s experiences of sexual violence, I argue that ‘continuum thinking’ can offer important interventions which unsettle binaries, recognise grey areas in women’s experiences and avoid ‘othering’ specific communities. Continuum thinking allows us to understand connections whilst nevertheless maintaining distinctions that are important conceptually, politically and legally. However, this is dependent upon recognising the multiplicity of continuums in feminist theorising – as well as in policy contexts – and the different ways in which they operate. A discussion of contemporary theory and policy suggests that this multiplicity is not always recognised, resulting in a flattening of distinctions which can make it difficult to recognise the specifically gendered patterns of violence and experience. I conclude by considering how focusing on men’s behaviour might offer one way of unsettling the contemporary orthodoxy which equates gender-based violence and violence against women.
Schlagwörter:feminist theories; feministische Theorie; gender-based violence; Geschlechterbegriff; Gewalt; Gewalt gegen Frauen; Policy; sexualisierte Gewalt; violence; violence against women
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Quelle: Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 99 (2018) , S 258–272
Inhalt: Sexual objectification is a widespread phenomenon characterized by a focus on the individual's physical appearance over his/her mental state. This has been associated with negative social consequences, as objectified individuals are judged to be less human, competent, and moral. Moreover, behavioral responses toward the person change as a function of the degree of the perceived sexual objectification. In the present study, we investigated how behavioral and neural representations of other social pain are modulated by the degree of sexual objectification of the target. Using a within-subject fMRI design, we found reduced empathic feelings for positive (but not negative) emotions toward sexually objectified women as compared to non-objectified (personalized) women when witnessing their participation to a ball-tossing game. At the brain level, empathy for social exclusion of personalized women recruited areas coding the affective component of pain (i.e., anterior insula and cingulate cortex), the somatosensory components of pain (i.e., posterior insula and secondary somatosensory cortex) together with the mentalizing network (i.e., middle frontal cortex) to a greater extent than for the sexually objectified women. This diminished empathy is discussed in light of the gender-based violence that is afflicting the modern society.
Sexual Harassment of Women : Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - A Consensus Study Report of The National Academies of Scienes - Engineering - Medicine
Herausgeber/in:
Johnson, Paula A.; Widnall, Sheila E.; Benya, Frazier F.; Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia; Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs
Quelle: Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia; Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs; Johnson, Paula A.; Widnall, Sheila E.; Benya, Frazier F.; Washington (DC): National Academies Press, 2018. 311 S
Inhalt: Over the last few decades, research, activity, and funding has been devoted to improving the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine. In recent years the diversity of those participating in these fields, particularly the participation of women, has improved and there are significantly more women entering careers and studying science, engineering, and medicine than ever before. However, as women increasingly enter these fields they face biases and barriers and it is not surprising that sexual harassment is one of these barriers. Over thirty years the incidence of sexual harassment in different industries has held steady, yet now more women are in the workforce and in academia, and in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine (as students and faculty) and so more women are experiencing sexual harassment as they work and learn. Over the last several years, revelations of the sexual harassment experienced by women in the workplace and in academic settings have raised urgent questions about the specific impact of this discriminatory behavior on women and the extent to which it is limiting their careers. Sexual Harassment of Women explores the influence of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the scientific, technical, and medical workforce. This report reviews the research on the extent to which women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine are victimized by sexual harassment and examines the existing information on the extent to which sexual harassment in academia negatively impacts the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women pursuing scientific, engineering, technical, and medical careers. It also identifies and analyzes the policies, strategies and practices that have been the most successful in preventing and addressing sexual harassment in these settings.
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Statistik und statistische Daten, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt