Conclusion

Digital Feminist Activism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190697846.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 175-190

Author(s):

Kaitlynn Mendes ◽

Jessica Ringrose ◽

Jessalynn Keller

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

Case Studies ◽

Speaking Out ◽

Asking Questions ◽

Scholarly Inquiry

This chapter summarizes our key findings and case studies and outlines directions for future scholarly inquiry. The Conclusion reiterates the importance of not only asking questions about what digital feminism does, or how it is manifested, but how it is felt and experienced amongst participants. In particular, we draw out the implications of our findings to explore affective and material changes in the lives of our participants. We discuss how our research has revealed a range of new connectivities among girls and women and show the main aspects of what digital feminism can do including educating and transforming lives, and ask what it can achieve, especially considering its demanding nature. We consider these potentialities in light of recent surges of victims speaking out against sexual violence in #MeToo and #TimesUp.

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Advocacy to improve health

Oxford Textbook of Global Health of Women, Newborns, Children, and Adolescents ◽

10.1093/med/9780198794684.003.0045 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 227-229

Author(s):

Tony Waterston ◽

Delan Devakumar

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Social Determinants Of Health ◽

Case Studies ◽

Infant Feeding ◽

Social Determinants ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Real Life ◽

Speaking Out ◽

Effective Advocacy ◽

Improve Health

Advocacy is ‘speaking out on behalf of a particular issue, idea, or person’, acting as a catalyst for change. To achieve the targets described in this book requires advocates and champions. It is therefore an essential component of the work of all health professionals to ensure that services work better for the population and for patients. Effective advocacy requires diplomacy, persistence, an understanding of how systems work, and an ability to work with disciplines outside medicine. The targets of advocacy have traditionally been healthcare focused, but considering the wider social determinants of health is essential. An understanding of social and political science is essential when thinking of the best ways to advocate for and improve a situation. In this chapter, we summarise a toolkit for how to advocate to improve health, and provide two real-life case studies on the commercialisation of infant feeding and child abuse in Mumbai.

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BOOK REVIEW THE ISSUES AT STAKE – THEORIES AND PRACTICES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS IN INDIA BY NANDITA GANDHI AND NANDITA SHAH

GAP BODHI TARU - A GLOBAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES - 1 ◽

10.47968/gapbodhi.23002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 8-10

Author(s):

Preeti Oza

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Case Studies ◽

Women's Movements ◽

Action Program ◽

Health Work ◽

Nationalist Movement ◽

Maxim Gorky ◽

Research Collective

The authors begin the book with „Who “we” are‟….which puts them in the context of their childhood and young age which was influenced by the Nationalist Movement, Charisma od Gandhiji, Alexander Dumas, Maxim Gorky, Mulk Raj Anand, and many other worlds and national phenomena. They also talk about their detachment for the first-hand experiences of the troubled and tortured as they were coming from the upper middle class Hindu savarna families. In the process of narrowing down the whole idea of movements related to women‟s issues, the authors have selected four major areas namely sexual violence, health, work, and legal campaigns. They also excluded the collection of case studies form their preview. By 1984, they came up with their first office with the name” the Women‟s Decade Research Collective- WDRC. In 1985, they got a grant from the ISS Holland. By 1986 their struggle started in the various parts of India to collect the stories/ data/ cases and documents. Their train journey from Assam to Benaras to Madhya Pradesh taught them to be a part of the daily struggle put up by the women across India. The action program got strengthened by the little surveys they took and the information and advice they picked up during the journey. The women‟s movement has no beginning or “origin”. It exists as an emotion, anger deep within us. The women‟s movement history also is like notes in a cycle of rhythm; each is a eparate piece, yet a part of the whole.

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Neoliberal Pleasure: Intimate Talk about Female Sexual Experience

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.66 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Shannon Couper

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Case Studies ◽

Political Power ◽

Sexual Experience ◽

Sexual Pleasure ◽

The Political ◽

Critical Response ◽

Significant Contributor ◽

Conflicting Discourses

Sociolinguists have investigated the language of sexual violence and consent at length, but sexual pleasure remains largely overlooked. Sexual pleasure has often been forgotten in the battle against rape culture, but this discussion centers it. First, relevant concepts from the sociolinguistic scholarship are positioned alongside queer feminist conceptions of sexual pleasure. The discussion then turns to New Zealand case studies of conversations in intimate friendships about sexual pleasure to demonstrate how navigating conflicting discourses transforms sexual pleasure into a neoliberal project. A critical response is offered in a consideration of pleasure activism and how further sociolinguistic attention can harness the political power of pleasure. Sexual pleasure is a significant contributor to advancing sexual liberation, and sociolinguistic efforts to understand these complexities are important. Without paying attention to how sexual experiences are made sense of in intimate conversations, there is a risk of ensnaring pleasure in traps of faux empowerment discourse and neoliberal constraints.

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Introduction

Digital Feminist Activism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190697846.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Kaitlynn Mendes ◽

Jessica Ringrose ◽

Jessalynn Keller

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

Digital Media ◽

Case Studies ◽

Media Studies ◽

Cultural Context ◽

New Technologies ◽

Rape Culture ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Interdisciplinary Nature ◽

Digital Media Studies

In this chapter, we begin by making a case for the ubiquitous ways rape culture, harassment, and sexual violence continue to be a part of many girls’ and women’s everyday lives, despite the ways in which feminists have challenged these issues for over half a century. This chapter then goes on to outline the various ways girls and women have begun to harness new technologies to challenge these practices. Importantly, the chapter also introduces the scholarly foundation for this book, focusing specifically on the contemporary social and cultural context in which our case studies operate. The interdisciplinary nature of this study means we engage with key concepts from the fields of digital media studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, sociology, and education studies. The concepts or terms that we explore and define here include rape culture, lad culture, hashtag feminism, and mediated abuse.

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Recreating Experiences: Improving the Validity of Data

Evaluation Journal of Australasia ◽

10.1177/1035719x05004001-207 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 4 (1-2) ◽

pp. 44-51

Author(s):

David Roberts

Keyword(s):

Focus Groups ◽

Case Studies ◽

Social Research ◽

Accurate Data ◽

Inaccurate Data ◽

Perceptions And Attitudes ◽

Interview Survey ◽

Asking Questions ◽

Answering Questions

This paper explores the dynamics of peoples' responses to questions and uses case studies to explore ways in which the validity of data can be improved. Much social research takes for granted that the process of asking questions through interview, survey or focus groups provides accurate data about behaviour, perceptions and attitudes. However, the literature suggests that many questionnaires produce inaccurate data. Cognitive psychologists report that people tend to minimise the difficult recall or imaginative tasks when answering questions. Instead, respondents use ‘schemas’ or ‘scripts’ to interpret and respond to their immediate situation. A schema provides a ‘logic’ or ‘rationality’ that informs their responses. Some practitioners have found that they get more robust results by asking respondents to recreate mentally, specific events before asking questions based on those events.

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Deconstructive Strategies and the Movement Against Sexual Violence

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/j.1527-2001.1996.tb01035.x ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 63-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Renee Heberle

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Social Effects ◽

Rape Culture ◽

The Public ◽

Speaking Out ◽

The Social ◽

The Public Sphere

This essay considers the social effects of the strategy of “speaking out” about sexual violence to transform rape culture. I articulate the paradox that women's identification as victims in the public sphere reinscribes the gendered norms that enable the victimization of women. I suggest we create a more diversified public narrative of sexual violence and sexuality within the context of the movement against sexual violence in order to deconstruct masculinist power in feminine victimization.

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