Resisting Rape Culture Online and at School: The Pedagogy of Digital Defence and Feminist Activism Lessons

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-153
Author(s):  
Jessica Ringrose ◽  
Kaitlynn Mendes ◽  
Sophie Whitehead ◽  
Amelia Jenkinson
Keyword(s):  
Rape Culture ◽  
Feminist Activism

Digital Feminist Activism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlynn Mendes ◽  
Jessica Ringrose ◽  
Jessalynn Keller
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Media Platforms

In recent years, feminists have turned to digital technologies and social media platforms to dialogue, network, and organize against contemporary sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. The emergence of feminist campaigns such as #MeToo, #BeenRapedNeverReported, and Everyday Sexism are part of a growing trend of digital resistances and challenges to sexism, patriarchy, and other forms of oppression. Although recent scholarship has documented the ways digital spaces are often highly creative sites where the public can learn about and intervene in rape culture, little research has explored girls’ and women’s experiences of using digital platforms to challenge misogynistic practices. This is therefore the first book-length study to interrogate how girls and women negotiate rape culture through digital platforms, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and mobile apps. Through an analysis of high-profile campaigns such as Hollaback!, Everyday Sexism, and the everyday activism of Twitter feminists, this book presents findings of over 800 pieces of digital content, and semi-structured interviews with 82 girls, women, and some men around the world, including organizers of various feminist campaigns and those who have contributed to them. As our study shows, digital feminist activism is far more complex and nuanced than one might initially expect, and a variety of digital platforms are used in a multitude of ways, for many purposes. Furthermore, although it may be technologically easy for many groups to engage in digital feminist activism, there remain emotional, mental, or practical barriers that create different experiences, and legitimate some feminist voices, perspectives, and experiences over others.

Feminist Activism and YPAR: Privileged Girls Interrupt Rape Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122097881
Author(s):  
Amira Proweller ◽  
Beth S. Catlett ◽  
Sonya Crabtree-Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Rape Culture ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Resistance Strategies ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

This research focuses on a community-based project that foregrounds youth-led participatory action research with privileged youth. The youth’s work involved interrogation of, and resistance strategies for, rape culture. Research findings demonstrate that youth came to see that rape culture has deep roots and disrupting it depends on naming its reality within their lives and its systemic foundations. Building on these emergent understandings, the youth took steps to educate their community about rape culture and gender-based violence, and the consequences of leaving it unexamined. They also created strategies to transform rape culture and facilitate social change within their own community.

Addressing Rape Culture through Folktale Adaptation in Malaysian Young Adult Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Sharifah Aishah Osman
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Rape culture is a provocative topic in Malaysia; the public discourse on it is plagued by gender stereotyping, sexism, misogyny, and rape myths. Recent literary works aimed at Malaysian adolescent girls have interrogated rape culture more pointedly as a means of addressing gender-based violence through activism and education. In this article, I discuss two short stories, “The Girl on the Mountain” and “Gamble” as retellings of Malaysian legends and feminist responses to the normalization and perpetuation of rape culture in this society. Through the emphasis on female agency, consent, and gender equality, these two stories reflect the subversive power of Malaysian young adult literature in dismantling rape culture, while affirming the significance of the folktale as an empowering tool for community engagement and feminist activism.

scholarly journals #MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlynn Mendes ◽  
Jessica Ringrose ◽  
Jessalynn Keller
Keyword(s):  
Rape Culture ◽  
Feminist Activism

Twitter as a Pedagogical Platform

2019 ◽  
pp. 100-124
Author(s):  
Kaitlynn Mendes ◽  
Jessica Ringrose ◽  
Jessalynn Keller
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Sexually Aggressive ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Global Reach

This chapter shows how feminists are using not only Twitter but a diverse interconnected range of social media platforms to engage in their digital activism. Drawing on a survey of 46 self-defined Twitter feminists, and a subsample of email, Skype, and in-person interviews with 21 of these respondents we explore how participants challenge rape culture and engage in feminist activism creating social media counter-publics. Twitter affords feminists connectivity, speed, immediacy, and global reach to share and debate: important pedagogical processes for raising awareness and visibility around issues such as rape culture. Despite the widely understood benefits of social media, participants recounted challenges of participating in digital activism on Twitter, including instances of hostile anti-feminism and episodes of sexually aggressive trolling. We outline participants’ emergent strategies for coping with technologically mediated misogyny and illuminate the significant role Twitter is playing in activating networked feminism.

scholarly journals Feminist Activism against Rape Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Claudia Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Ya Fiction ◽  
Girls Studies

I met Roxanne Harde, the guest editor of this Special Issue, at the Second International Girls Studies Association conference in 2019 when I attended the panel discussion, “Representations of Rape in Young Adult Fiction.” I recall Roxanne’s passion vividly and, indeed, the enthusiasm of all three presenters as they discussed a variety of texts in superb presentations that aligned well with Ann Smith’s notion of feminism in action in their seeing “a fictional text not only as a literary investigation into issues of concern to its author but also as the site of educational research” (2000: 245). Their papers pointed to the ways in which the analysis of how rape culture is treated in Young Adult (YA) literature, film, and the print media can take scholars and activists so much further into the issues, and, at the same time, noted the ways in which rape culture in all its manifestations as a global phenomenon has inevitably led to its becoming an everyday topic of YA fiction.

Rape culture

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Daly ◽  
Emily Culpepper
Keyword(s):  
Rape Culture
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