Sexual Harassment and Sexual Predators in Neoliberal Times

Lazard, Lisa

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55255-8_5

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“…Having established her credibility, the guest then goes on to frame the criminalisation of wolf-whistling as exaggerated (Lazard, 2020). She issues a tentative warning against overreactions towards wolf-whistling stemming from people becoming “ so sensitized” (Line 19) and presumably mislabelling actions that are in fact “harmless” and “okay” (Line 20).…”

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Porridge and misogyny: Rationalising inconspicuous misogyny in morning television shows

Ridley,

Humă,

Walz

2023

Feminism & Psychology

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While in the last decade we made strides in the pursuit of gender equality, women's rights, dignity, and safety continue to be under threat around the world. There is a growing body of research documenting contemporary misogyny, mainly focused on extreme manifestations found in online environments. Conversely, we know less about how misogyny features in other spheres of our daily lives. The current study focuses on such an environment, namely segments from the British show This Morning in which guests are invited to take opposing stances on a variety of topics related to women's appearance, behaviour, competencies, and experiences with sexual harassment. Using discursive psychology, we identified two sets of argumentative discursive practices employed by guests who espoused misogynist views. First, when guests were prompted to present their controversial views, they constructed them as reasonable, strategically differentiating them from established misogynist tropes. By contrast, when guests’ views were challenged, they doubled down on their positions by drawing on scientific explanations for human behaviour that ostensibly justified bigoted views. This study sheds light onto the discursive mechanisms through which misogyny escapes eradication, and through which it mutates into subtler forms that are increasingly difficult to identify and denounce.

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Porridge and misogyny: Rationalising inconspicuous misogyny in morning television shows

Ridley,

Humă,

Walz

2023

Feminism & Psychology

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“…In the view of Thomas & Kitzinger (1997), sexual harassment can be related to glancing, whistling, catcalling, peeking, touching, and hugging. In this context, sexual harassment mostly occurs to women (Lazard, 2020), whether perpetrated by men against women or women against women (Smith, 2020). In "Girl" film, Lara is a woman who experiences sexual harassment by her female friend.…”

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Masculinities to Trans-femininities: Evidence through the “Girl” Film

Ahmadi

2024

mcs

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This study aims to explore the life journey of a man who wants to become a transfeminist woman through the perspective of masculinity studies. This study uses a qualitative method. The results of this study are as follows. First, Lara as a transfeminist made psychological changes by making herself a graceful figure, changing her love desires by loving men, and having aspirations of becoming a ballerina so that she is like a natural woman. Second, Lara as a transfeminist made physical changes to become a normal woman by wearing earrings and women's clothes, cooking, doing feminizing hormone therapy to grow breasts, and planning to do a sex reassignment surgery to have a vagina. Third, from the aspect of attitude, Lara's family that supports Lara's transformation from male to female has become a controversy. However, in society, Lara, who is a transfeminist, is still controversial and not everyone accepts the presence of transfeminism/LGBT. This can be seen in how society bullies and sexually harasses her. In the end, Lara, who was assigned as a male, actually turned into a female.

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“…According to Lisa Lazard (2020), dichotomous understandings of agency and empowerment on the one hand, and victimhood and vulnerability on the other, have often prevailed in discourses on sexual harassment. Feminist views and resistance of sexual harassment have often highlighted the copresence of agency and vulnerability, instead of viewing them as mutually exclusive (Lazard, 2020). This article builds on a similar view that highlights complexity in understandings and experiences of vulnerability both regarding sexual harassment and social relations in general.…”

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Am I vulnerable? Researcher positionality and affect in research on gendered vulnerabilities

Venäläinen

2023

Feminism & Psychology

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In this article, I draw on arts-based approaches and new materialist affect theory in order to explore possibilities to attune research outputs to researcher vulnerability. These approaches and theorisations challenge conventional research practices geared toward creating distance between the researcher and their research, and work towards dissolving hierarchical distinctions between assumedly invulnerable researchers and vulnerable participants. In doing so, they pave the way for attuning research work to the complex interplay of difference and sameness as it unfolds and surfaces in the process of researching gendered vulnerabilities. By presenting a piece of poetic writing that engages with research encounters within a project on sexual harassment and young people, I tap into the troubled affect, the constant interplay of difference, shifting alignments, and ultimate entwinements between the researcher, the phenomenon of sexual harassment, and the research participants and other involved actors. Based on my inquiry, I propose attending to vulnerability through affect theory as an encompassing and dynamic state of being affected and affecting others, both in violent ways and in ways that aim to build solidarity and empathy.

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Sexual Harassment and Sexual Predators in Neoliberal Times

Cited by 3 publications

References 37 publications

Porridge and misogyny: Rationalising inconspicuous misogyny in morning television shows

Porridge and misogyny: Rationalising inconspicuous misogyny in morning television shows

Masculinities to Trans-femininities: Evidence through the “Girl” Film

Am I vulnerable? Researcher positionality and affect in research on gendered vulnerabilities

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