Transforming Campus Rape Culture

Abstract

This chapter explores how rape culture, as a concept, is used to mobilize efforts to reduce campus sexual violence. While rape culture is not simple, institutional responses assume it is. This insight is informed by complexity theory. Rape culture is a complex context that does not respond well to solutions that assume static, cause–effect relationships. The chapter describes a Canadian project that used narrative methods to solicit stories about rape culture from students and invited them to code their own stories and how they would characterize aspects of their experiences. The chapter explores how students make meaning of and understand rape culture in contrast to dominant narratives in research and advocacy. Additionally it explores the students’ stories’ themes to illustrate limitations inherent in current efforts to transform campus rape culture.

Adult male rape myths in England since 1994: A systemic mixed methods review.

“…This review did not find empirical support for the notion that different types of people (e.g., friends, family, formal support systems, ADULT MALE RAPE MYTHS IN ENGLAND SINCE 1994 9 mock jurors) can be accepting of MRM, contrary to previous research (Anderson & Lyons, 2005;Jackson et al, 2017), as a majority of the studies included relied on student samples as mentioned above. Indeed, it is important to understand rape myths among university students because this population is at an increased risk of sexual violence (Crocker & Sibley, 2020;Judson et al, 2013;Reling et al, 2018). However, these studies may provide an underestimated rape myth adherence which threatens the validity of their findings because university students are predominantly sampled from social sciences programs.…”