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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.
List of contents
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
Summary
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.
