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Klappentext This compelling book provides cutting-edge information on studies on sexual violence against women conducted on North American campuses - and simultaneously contradicts backlash critics who claim that feminists exaggerate their statistics.Well-known researchers in the field describe their own work and that of others to illustrate both large-scale and local studies. Topics discussed include: researchers' own emotional experiences of working with rape research; experiences of harassment by subjects; feminist participatory research into lesbian battering; reflexivity in studying prostitutes; the gendered nature of research interviews; and white women studying battered black women. Zusammenfassung This compelling book provides cutting-edge information on studies on sexual violence against women conducted on North American campuses - and simultaneously contradicts backlash critics who claim that feminists exaggerate their statistics. Well-known researchers in the field describe their own work and that of others to illustrate both large-scale and local studies. Topics discussed include: researchers' own emotional experiences of working with rape research; experiences of harassment by subjects; feminist participatory research into lesbian battering; reflexivity in studying prostitutes; the gendered nature of research interviews; and white women studying battered black women. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH ON SEXUAL ASSAULT ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES Stepping on Toes - Mary P Koss and Hobart H Cleveland Social Roots of Date Rape Lead to Intractability and Politicization A Longitudinal Approach to the Study of Sexual Assault - Jacquelyn W White and John A Humphrey Theoretical and Methodological Considerations Measuring Sexual Abuse in Canadian University/College Dating Relationships - Walter S DeKeseredy The Contribution of a National Representative Sample Survey Acquaintance Rape Is Real Rape - Patricia A Frazier and Lisa M Seales Self-Blame in Hidden Rape Cases - Victoria L Pitts and Martin D Schwartz PART TWO: EMOTION IN RESEARCHING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN `I Second That Emotion¿ - Elizabeth A Stanko Reflections on Feminism, Emotionality and Research on Sexual Violence Activist Research and Social Narratives - Susan K Hippensteele Dialectics of Power, Privilege and Institutional Change Field Research with Phone Sex Workers - Christine Mattley Managing the Researcher¿s Emotions The Sexual Harassment of Researchers by Research Subjects - Jennifer K Huff Lessons from the Field PART THREE: DOING RESEARCH ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Confessions of a Reformed Positivist - Claire M Renzetti Feminist Participatory Research as Good Social Science Researching Violence against Street Prostitutes - Jody Miller Issues of Epistemology, Methodology and Ethics Measuring Violence against Women - Dawn H Currie and Brian D MacLean The Interview as Gendered Social Encounter Studying Violence against Women of Color - Kimberly A Huisman Problems Faced by a White Woman ...
