“Back Off Buddy, This Is My Body, Not Yours”: Empowering Girls Through Self-Defense

Jordan, Jan; Mossman, Elaine

doi:10.1177/1077801217741217

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“…This finding is consistent with recent research on sexual assault prevention, including feminist self-defense and resistance training among high school and college students. [ 21 – 23 ] A recent review suggests that K-12 comprehensive sex ed has the qualities of effective prevention programs and has the potential to mitigate the risk factors associated with sexual violence perpetration—by starting prevention early in the lifecourse. [ 38 ]…”

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“…While CSE in middle and high school can reduce adolescent behaviors that lead to HIV, STIs, and unplanned pregnancy[ 19 ], research has not been conducted to measure the impact of pre-college CSE on sexual assault in college. [ 20 ] Promising intervention approaches include targeted interventions involving self-defense skills and resistance training for college[ 21 , 22 ] and high school[ 23 ] students and bystander programs[ 24 , 25 ], intended to improve environmental support for young people at risk of assault.…”

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Does sex education before college protect students from sexual assault in college?

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PurposeCollege-bound young people experience sexual assault, both before and after they enter college. This study examines historical risk factors (experiences and exposures that occurred prior to college) for penetrative sexual assault (PSA) victimization since entering college.MethodsA cross-sectional study, including an online population-based quantitiative survey with undergraduate students was conducted in spring 2016. Bivariate analyses and multivariable regressions examined risk and protective factors associated with ever experiencing PSA since entering college. Concurrently-collected in-depth ethnographic interviews with 151 students were reviewed for information related to factors identified in the survey.ResultsIn bivariate analyses, multiple historical factors were significantly associated with PSA in college including adverse childhood experiences and having experienced unwanted sexual contact before college (for women) and initiation of alcohol, marijuana, and sexual behaviors before age 18. Significant independent risk factors for college PSA included female gender, experiencing unwanted sexual contact before college, first oral sex before age 18, and “hooking up” (e.g., causual sex or sex outside a committed partnership) in high school. Receipt of school-based sex education promoting refusal skills before age 18 was an independent protective factor; abstinence-only instruction was not. In the ethnographic interviews, students reported variable experiences with sex education before college; many reported it was awkward and poorly delivered.ConclusionsMultiple experiences and exposures prior to college influenced the risk of penetrative sexual assault in college. Pre-college comprehensive sexuality education, including skills-based training in refusing unwanted sex, may be an effective strategy for preventing sexual assault in college. Sexual assault prevention needs to begin earlier; successful prevention before college should complement prevention efforts once students enter college.

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“…Of particular interest is that women correctly identified relatively weaker male vocalizers on only 25% of trials, and tended to judge similar strength male vocalizers as stronger than themselves. Awareness of this negative bias may inform confidence-based interventions (already shown to ameliorate the “confidence gap” in cognitive tasks, Bench et al., 2015 , Ehrlinger and Dunning, 2003 , Estes and Felker, 2012 ) in sexual assault resistance programs ( Jordan and Mossman, 2017 , Senn et al., 2015 , Senn et al., 2017 , Wong and Balemba, 2016 ).…”

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Human Listeners Can Accurately Judge Strength and Height Relative to Self from Aggressive Roars and Speech

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SummaryAlthough animal vocalizations and human speech are known to communicate physical formidability, no previous study has examined whether human listeners can assess the strength or body size of vocalizers relative to their own, either from speech or from nonverbal vocalizations. Here, although men tended to underestimate women's formidability, and women to overestimate men's, listeners judged relative strength and height from aggressive roars and aggressive speech accurately. For example, when judging roars, male listeners accurately identified vocalizers who were substantially stronger than themselves in 88% of trials, and never as weaker. For male vocalizers only, roars functioned to exaggerate the expression of threat compared to aggressive speech, as men were rated as relatively stronger when producing roars. These results indicate that, like other mammals, the acoustic structure of human aggressive vocal signals (and in particular roars) may have been selected to communicate functional information relevant to listeners' survival.

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“…Self‐defence training may enable women to defend themselves. Feminist and empowerment‐based self‐defence training effectively builds women’s capacity to avoid sexual violence and undertake self‐defence when attacked (Brecklin ; Hollander , ; Jordan and Mossman ; Kelly and Sharp‐Jeffs ; Hollander ). Feminist self‐defence may be understood as a form of ‘physical feminism’ that can ‘rewrite the script’ of women’s helplessness, and men’s power with the potential for both individual empowerment and wider social change (McCaughey ).…”

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Everyday self‐defence: Hollaback narratives, habitus and resisting street harassment

Fleetwood

2019

British Journal of Sociology

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Street harassment is recognized as an ‘everyday’ form of violence against women. Influenced by contemporary sociologies of everyday life, this article examines women responses to street harassment, drawing on over 500 first person narratives submitted to the website of Hollaback London. The narrative structure highlights women’s actions, which (like street harassment) have generally been considered inconsequential. Quantitative content analysis reveals the extent and variety of strategies employed by women, including speaking back, calling on others for help, physically fighting back, walking away and an array of ‘small’, everyday actions and gestures that aim to resist harassment. I argue that these responses comprise everyday self‐defence practice. Furthermore, the notion of narrative habitus is employed to argue that Hollaback narratives do not just describe harassment, but that reading narratives can generate dispositions for self‐defence. Narrative analysis reveals the way that satire is employed to make space for women’s successful self‐defence. I argue that Hollaback narratives do not just offer storylines or scripts for resisting street harassment but foster a style for doing so. Analysis considers the limits to narratively motivated self‐defence. This research demonstrates that, in order to ‘see’ women’s resistance, we need to pay close attention to the everyday as the site of both oppression and moments of liberation.

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“Back Off Buddy, This Is My Body, Not Yours”: Empowering Girls Through Self-Defense

Cited by 25 publications

References 38 publications

Does sex education before college protect students from sexual assault in college?

Does sex education before college protect students from sexual assault in college?

Human Listeners Can Accurately Judge Strength and Height Relative to Self from Aggressive Roars and Speech

Everyday self‐defence: Hollaback narratives, habitus and resisting street harassment

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