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The Politics of Naming and Construction: University Policies on Gender-Based Violence in the UK
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Sundari Anitha; Ana Jordan; Nicola Chanamuto – Gender and Education, 2024
The problematisation of a social phenomenon is a political process that both constructs the problem and, in doing so, suggests possible remedies and occludes others. Based on the first-ever comprehensive analysis of 129 UK university policies to address Gender-based violence (GBV), we examine how the 'problem' of GBV is conceptualised in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, School Policy, Gender Issues
Learning from Survivors: Reporting Parties' Perspectives on How Higher Education Institutions Should Address Gender-Based Violence and Harassment
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Anna Bull – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
Tackling gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) is an essential step for addressing gender inequality. This article applies theories of student/survivor 'voice' to accounts from interviewees (n = 35), analysing their perspectives on how higher education institutions (HEIs) should address this issue. Interviewees were current or former…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Violence, Gender Bias
Changing the Culture: Report of the Universities UK Taskforce Examining Violence against Women, Harassment and Hate Crime Affecting University Students
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Universities UK, 2016
This report summarises the evidence considered by the Universities UK (UUK) Taskforce to examine violence against women, harassment and hate crime affecting university students, and makes a series of recommendations for universities and UUK. These recommendations cover both prevention activities and how universities can respond to these issues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Females, Sexual Harassment
Ambiguities around Sexuality: An Approach to Understanding Harassment and Bullying of Young People in British Schools
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Trotter, Joy – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2009
This article is based on a small study undertaken in 2001, which examined the experiences of and responses to sexual harassment and bullying adopted by different professionals (teachers, education social workers, youth workers and a school nurse) and by young people (12 to 25-year-olds). It draws together some of the literature relating to young…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexual Harassment, Bullying, School Nurses
Participation of Women: The Reality in 1985.
Groult, Benoite; And Others – Council of Europe Forum, 1985
The role of women throughout the world is the topic of several articles: their political power in Europe, the role of rural women in political life, sexual violence in Italy and Scandinavia, sex discrimination in Britain, unions and working women, women in Algerian culture, sexual harassment in Canada, and women in Switzerland. (CT)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Females, Political Power, Rural Population
Learning To Be Violent: The Role of the School in Developing Adolescent Gendered Behaviour.
Leach, Fiona – Compare, 2003
Examines role of schools and peer group culture in constructing male and female identity among adolescents in the context of gender violence. Discusses a United Kingdom Department for International Development funded study of abuse of girls in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Ghana. Reveals contemplative sexual socialization processes in which male violence…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Aggression, Bullying, Comparative Education