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Elizabeth Mackinlay; Renée T. Mickelburgh; Margaret Henderson; Bonnie Evans; Christina Gowlett – Gender and Education, 2024
This essay details research into feminist digital activism in the Australian context through analysing the themes that emerged from the Teach Us Consent website. It provides a preliminary analysis of its contents as a means to continue and deepen the conversation around issues of gender, consent, and the education system. It also examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Activism, Sex
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Sarah Douglas; Felicity Sedgewick – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Intimate partner violence and sexual assault are under-researched experiences in autistic people's lives. Recent research, however, has shown that autistic people are more likely to have been victimized than non-autistic people. This research, therefore, sought to explore the firsthand accounts of a range of autistic people about intimate partner…
Descriptors: Adults, Experience, Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy
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Banks, Rochelle – Gender and Education, 2023
This article explores the impact of sexual harassment on one teacher--the paper's author and, in doing so, opens up conversations about the micro-realities of gendered harassment in educational institutions. By using autoethnography as a method of inquiry and writing from the unique perspective of the survivor-researcher, the author sheds light on…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Language Usage, Gender Bias, Power Structure
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Molnar, Timea; Rynne, John; Allard, Troy; McKillop, Nadine – Youth & Society, 2023
This study examined specific circumstances precipitating onset sexual offenses in a sample of 278 Australian male youth who have sexually harmed. Offense narratives--a description of how the onset offense was initiated, interactions and behavior that took place leading up to, and during, the offense, and how the offense ended--were qualitatively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, Males, Interaction
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Pedersen, Eric R.; DiGuiseppi, Graham; Klein, David J.; Davis, Jordan P.; Farris, Coreen; D'Amico, Elizabeth J.; LaBrie, Joseph W.; Griffin, Beth Ann – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Research has just begun to identify American college students who study abroad as a group at-risk for sexual violence victimization. The purpose of the current study was to examine the context of these incidents. Participants: We utilized a large longitudinal sample of 2,428 United States college students studying abroad for between 4…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Victims of Crime, College Students, Study Abroad
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Smith-Khan, Laura – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This article explores public debates about credibility in media discourse regarding a Somali refugee who was raped on Nauru. Given the pseudonym "Abyan", she was living on Nauru as a result of Australian refugee policy and was brought to Australia for medical assistance. Her treatment by the Australian authorities became the subject of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Credibility, News Media, News Reporting
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Yap, Lorraine; Richters, Juliet; Butler, Tony; Schneider, Karen; Grant, Luke; Donovan, Basil – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Male prison rape and sexual assaults remains a serious and sensitive issue in many countries. Human rights groups claim that sexual assaults among male prisoners have reached pandemic proportions and need to be stopped. Researchers for many years have studied the causes of male sexual assault in prison and offered numerous recommendations on its…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Rape, Correctional Institutions, Anthropology
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Keddie, Amanda – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
Recent high-profile rape cases in Australia involving Muslim and Indigenous minority groups have heightened contention around issues of culture, gender and justice. The article critically examines the culturalising of rape as an ethnic minority issue in the public and legal discourse associated with these cases. This examination problematises the…
Descriptors: Muslims, Rape, Females, Foreign Countries
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Gannon, Susanne – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2007
This paper examines a local and specific instance of the effects of neoliberal markets on individual and institutional subjects of schooling. It reviews a court case between a prestigious private girls' school and an ex-student who sued the school for failing to provide adequate supervision on a school trip to Europe during which she was raped. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Court Litigation
Kalish, Carol B. – 1988
This study compared crime rates of the United States with those of other countries for whom statistics were available: European countries, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Statistics were provided by the United Nations for homicide, rape, robbery, burglary, and theft; the International Police Organization (Interpol) for homicide, rape, robbery,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Crime, Cross Cultural Studies, Differences
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Sanday, Peggy Reeves – Journal of Social Issues, 1981
Data from a cross-cultural sample of tribal societies suggest that rape is part of a cultural configuration which includes interpersonal violence, male dominance, and sexual separation. Rape is interpreted as the sexual expression of these forces in society where harmony between men and their environment has been severely disrupted. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Cultural Influences, Environmental Influences