Explorations on the Nature of Resistance: Challenging Gender-Based Violence in the Academy

Lewis, Ruth and Anitha, Sundari (2019) Explorations on the Nature of Resistance: Challenging Gender-Based Violence in the Academy. In: Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy. Springer, pp. 75-94. ISBN 978-3-030-04851-8

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Abstract

As awareness of and frustration with sexism in academia grows, so too do strategies of resistance. This chapter explores the concept of ‘resistance’ in relation to gender-based violence (GBV) in universities. In this context, ‘resistance’ includes work, much of it inspired by a feminist analysis, to prevent GBV, to hold institutions to account and to change university cultures so that they no longer invisibilise or condone GBV. Resistance to such efforts also comes from those who would support the status quo and those critical of the framing of anti-GBV campaigns. This chapter will explore how the ‘backlash’ against feminism and post-feminist equalisation discourses comprises types of resistance to radical attempts to eradicate this form of sexism in the academy.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	L900 Others in Social studies
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	06 Jun 2019 13:57
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 18:30
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/39543

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