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Dickman-Burnett, Victoria L.; Fisher, Bonnie S.; Dariotis, Jacinda K.; Geaman, Maribeth – Journal of School Violence, 2021
With sexual violence prevention programs gaining traction in secondary schools, students' attitudes toward sexual violence have begun to be measured more frequently. While these attitudes are measured as outcomes of prevention programs, students' preexisting attitudes toward sexual violence shape how prevention programs are received by the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Rape, Prevention
Treseler-Golden, Kelly M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
One in five women are sexually assaulted while in college (Cantor et al., 2015; Ali, 2011). Research has demonstrated that higher education is a patriarchal environment that is oppressive to women in a number of spheres (Acker, 1990; Burnett et al., 2009; Catalano, 2014; Miriam, 2007; Walby, 1989). Past research on sexual assault and patriarchy…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Females, Undergraduate Students, Educational Experience
Leatra Brenell Tate – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The present qualitative narrative inquiry explored Black women's experiences with sexual assault in higher education, focusing specifically on where they found support and their perceptions of campus and community connectedness. The theoretical frameworks used in this study include Black feminist theory, campus connectedness, and community…
Descriptors: Rape, Victims, Personal Narratives, Blacks
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Korac, Maja – Gender and Education, 2016
This paper addresses the question of totalising gender-power relations that have led to and shaped the wars of the 1990s in Yugoslavia and the emerging ethno-national states on the "periphery" of Europe. I argue that the same type of gender-power relations continue to dominate the region, notably Serbia, and to perpetuate gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Power Structure, War
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Norris, Jeanette – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2011
When the author started graduate school in the late 1970s, she was drawn to studying sexual assault. She had been a declared feminist since high school as the Women's Movement even reached the coal region of eastern Pennsylvania! Attending college in New York City, with its myriad opportunities for more exposure to what feminists were up to, made…
Descriptors: Feminism, Violence, Sexual Abuse, Females
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Potts, Donna L. – Academe, 2012
The author serves as the chair of the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) Assembly of State Conferences, the umbrella organization for individual state AAUP conferences; a moderator for Pandora's Project, a website for survivors of sexual abuse and assault; a volunteer for Veronica's Voice, a support program for women and girls…
Descriptors: Females, Faculty Advisers, Social Justice, Rape