ERIC Number: EJ1407154
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-1546
EISSN: EISSN-1538-4640
I Can Protect His Future, but She Can't Be Helped: Himpathy and Hysteria in Administrator Rationalizations of Institutional Betrayal
Journal of Higher Education, v95 n1 p30-53 2024
It is well-established fact that sexual assault survivors who report the violence they endured are retraumatized by the reporting process, but there is limited research on how these institutional betrayals are enacted. The current study draws on ethnographic observation and interview data to explore how 24 administrators use gendered rationalization frames to justify betrayal in Title IX cases. Specifically, administrators invoke himpathy to define their primary role as protecting the futures of young men. To defend this view from critique, they condemn how survivors use Title IX by casting them as hysterical women who are either mistaken in labeling an experience as sexual assault or suffering from trauma too severe for a Title IX process to repair. Taken together, these frames portray institutional betrayal as moral, even as these ideologies reinforce gender inequality.
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Legislation, Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Civil Rights, Gender Bias, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Trauma, College Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Higher Education Act Title IX
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