Intersectionality and Perceptions About Sexual Assault Education and Reporting on College Campuses
A mixed‐methods design with an intersectional feminist framework was used with 1,899 students at a large Southern university to critically examine (a) how students view the issue of sexual assault on their own campus, (b) how they perceive the status of reporting sexual assault to campus officials, and (c) how they are responding overall to a campus‐wide sexual assault education program. Some privileged groups, especially heterosexual men, were less informed than others about sexual assault and less supportive of campus sexual assault education. In contrast, some marginalized groups, including lesbian, gay, and bisexua...
Source: Family Relations - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Meredith G. F. Worthen, Samantha A. Wallace Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Why Sexual Assault Survivors Do Not Report to Universities: A Feminist Analysis
The present study analyzed responses from 220 female survivors of sexual assault at a U.S. college campus. Guided by feminist thought, we used thematic analysis to analyze survivors' reasons for not reporting their sexual assault to university officials. Drawing on participants' own words, the most common reasons for not reporting included “It was not a big enough deal,” “I didn't know who to report to or that I could report,” “It wasn't related to the university,” “I was afraid,” “Because I was drunk,” “Too ashamed to report,” “I didn't want to get him in trouble,” and “Felt as if I would be ...
Source: Family Relations - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chelsea Spencer, Allen Mallory, Michelle Toews, Sandra Stith, Leila Wood Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The Abuse Litmus Test: A Classroom Tool to Assess Power and Control in On ‐Screen Relationships
Despite university efforts and recent evidence‐based interventions to reduce campus sexual assault, few systematic approaches have addressed how media depictions of sex and romance that inundate young adults via popular culture help to develop and sustain attitudes and behaviors that tolerate sexual abuse and intimate partner violence as normative. We introduce a feminist‐informed pedagogical tool—drawing from the Duluth Power and Control Wheel and the Women's Experience with Battering Framework—to facilitate college students' decoding of relationship power, control, and harm in popular film, including dynamics rel...
Source: Family Relations - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amy E. Bonomi, Asia A. Eaton, Julianna M. Nemeth, Tameka L. Gillum Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Sisterhood and Sexual Assault: Engaging Sorority Members in Dialogue, Critical Analysis, and Feminist Praxis
Taking a feminist pedagogy and praxis approach, I present a course model for engaging sorority members in critical analysis and feminist praxis around the issue of campus rape culture. This course model responds to two problems: (a) the prevailing disconnect between the efforts of departments of student affairs and academic affairs and (b) the untapped potential that faculty members with sorority or fraternity affiliations have as change agents by identifying themselves publically on campus. The resulting course provides a women‐only space where issues such as sexual assault can be analyzed, critiqued, and challenged in ...
Source: Family Relations - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: M. Elise Radina Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
A Feminist Analysis of Campus Sexual Assault Policies: Results from a National Sample
This study examined annual security reports and student handbooks and codes of conduct for a nationally representative sample of 4‐year IHEs (N = 387) and assessed IHEs' responses to sexual assault on college campuses through the lens of a feminist‐based organizational model. Findings indicate that policies for the sampled IHEs include a mean of 12 of 17 policy components' aligned with feminist models, and 4% of sampled IHEs include all 17 components. Implications for improving IHEs' responses to sexual assault in ways consistent with feminist models are discussed. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tara N. Richards, Kathryn A. Branch, Ruth E. Fleury ‐Steiner, Katherine Kafonek Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
From Furious to Fearless: Faculty Action and Feminist Praxis in Response to Rape Culture on College Campuses
In this article, we (four faculty members) draw on a specific rape‐promoting incident on our campus as a case study for feminist faculty responses to civil rights issues on college campuses. We critically examine the incident and share our multipronged response as faculty members. In so doing, we highlight interdisciplinary activism, the importance of strong visual presence of feminist faculty activism on campus, as well as our challenges and dilemmas. As a call to arms, we hope this article inspires other faculty to recognize their power and to take incisive action on their respective campuses. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth A. Sharp, Dana A. Weiser, Don E. Lavigne, R. Corby Kelly Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Confronting Myths About Sexual Assault: A Feminist Analysis of the False Report Literature
This article offers a feminist analysis of the issue, clearly delineates the definition of a false report, critically reviews the false report literature, and presents suggestions for educational efforts by family professionals. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dana A. Weiser Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Introduction to the Special Issue: Feminist Framings of Sexual Violence on College Campuses
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Source: Family Relations - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth A. Sharp, Shannon E. Weaver, Anisa Zvonkovic Tags: INTRODUCTION Source Type: research
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Source: Family Relations - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Feminist Agency, Sexual Scripts, and Sexual Violence: Developing a Model for Postgendered Family Communication
Abstract
We explore the interrelated research on intersectionality, feminist agency, script theory, and gender socialization to uncover the ways in which college students may experience institutionalized sexual scripts and perceptions of agency in sexual encounters. We theorize that changes at the family level could ultimately help create a shift in a campus culture that has become entrenched, with biased sexual scripts that lead to power imbalances and sexual violence. With underpinnings of social role theory and modeling, this article develops a model of postgendered family communication. Practical family communication s...
Source: Family Relations - April 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kelly R. Rossetto, Andrew C. Tollison Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
From Infantilizing to World Making: Safe Spaces and Trigger Warnings on Campus
This article examines student requests for safe spaces or trigger warnings in the United States in discussions about trauma and healing in academia and shifts the dialogue to provide a queer feminist theoretical framework for understanding these requests as world‐making projects that provide an account of public trauma and a sense of collective vulnerability. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katie Byron Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Disenfranchisement and Ambiguity in the Face of Loss: The Suffocated Grief of Sexual Assault Survivors
Abstract
Grief, loss, and social injustice are vital elements in the distinct yet intersecting stories of sexual assault and post‐assault survivorship. Yet survivors must frequently cope in isolation or in programs and therapeutic settings informed by literature that does not consistently account for grief and loss as central to their experiences. Utilizing a feminist framework, I review and critique literature on sexual assault survivorship and loss with focus on factors related to disenfranchisement and suffocated grief among young adult females. I also explore how these factors further complicate grief and mourning pr...
Source: Family Relations - April 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tashel Bordere Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Family Science as Translational Science: A History of the Discipline
Family science has been a translational science since its inception. The history of family science began with an interdisciplinary group of scholars who came together to explore the complex nature of families during the discovery phase, paying particular attention to applying information to resolve family challenges. In the pioneering stage, family professionals struggled with naming the discipline and assembled professional groups that collected and applied information to benefit families. In the maturing stage, disciplinary leaders deemed that family science met the criteria of a bona fide discipline and the field's iden...
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Raeann R. Hamon, Suzanne R. Smith Tags: Special Editorial Source Type: research
Measuring Spousal Forgiveness: German Version of the Marital Offence ‐Specific Forgiveness Scale (MOFS‐German)
ConclusionsFindings support the MOFS‐German's ability to assess spousal forgiveness, including differences between men and women as well as between couples in counseling and couples not in counseling.
ImplicationsThe MOFS‐German may now be used in the standardized assessment of marital forgiveness by clinicians and researchers. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julia Haversath, S ören Kliem, Christoph Kröger Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Translation That Transforms: Leadership and the Working Poor
This article explores how student attitudes, beliefs, and actions toward impoverished and working poor Americans were influenced by a data‐ and experience‐driven understanding of this population. The context is an undergraduate course called ADE 4930: Leadership and the Working Poor, a 3‐credit, service‐learning course requiring students to become Internal Revenue Service–certified tax preparers and provide 40 hours of free tax preparation assistance to the working poor. Students translated empirical evidence and data offered by ADE4930 through three primary applications: (a) behavioral guidance related to tax pr...
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven D. Mills Tags: Special Editorial Source Type: research
