Sexual Violence in Academia
Feminist Struggles and Institutional Barriers at Quebec Universities
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Beschreibung
The Quebec case: About the institutional mechanisms resisting feminist efforts to address gender violence in academia.
How does sexual violence persist in higher education, even when universities are officially committed to addressing the issue? In 2017, following a public protest, the Quebec government passed a law to prevent sexual violence in higher education. However, what initially looked like a success for the feminist movement became a highly controversial process of institutionalizing protective measures. Based on interviews with activists involved in the struggle, Alice Farneti investigates the contradiction between policy implementation and the lived experiences of those addressing gender violence in academia, providing a rigorous analysis of the institutional mechanisms resisting feminist demands for equality and inclusion.
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Alice Farneti
Alice Farneti is a gender sociologist who completed her PhD at Universität Bielefeld. During her doctoral studies, she was a member of the research training group »Experiencing Gender: Constitution and Transformation of Being in the World.« Her dissertation focuses on the experience of doing activism against sexual violence in academia, for which she conducted fieldwork in Quebec, Canada. Her main research interests include feminist epistemology, theory of gendered organizations, institutional violence, and ethnographic research methods.
Themen in »Sexual Violence in Academia«
Sexual Violence Higher Education Quebec Gender Studies Sociology