<i>It Follows</i>and Rape Culture: Critical Response as Disavowal

Varda, Scott J.

doi:10.1080/07491409.2017.1346534

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“…Rape culture continues to be analysed and measured through various topics of study, such as college campus environments (Giraldi and Monk-Turner, 2016;Ricci and Bergeron, 2019), the LGBTQ+ community (Johnson, Corbett-Hone, Gutekunst, and Grove, 2019), feminist pedagogy (Stern, 2018), film (Hahner and Varda, 2017), social media (Stubbs-Richardson, Rader, andCosby, 2018), religion (Barnett, Sligar, andWang, 2018), politics (Johnson, Rocchino, Wolf, Gutekunst, Paulvin, and Farrell, 2019), crime (O'Neal, 2017), and so forth. Rape culture also continues to be written and discussed in media and popular culture (e.g.…”

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“A Playing Field Where Patriarchy Plays”: Addressing Sexism in South African and Nigerian Newsrooms

Blumell

Mulupi

2020

Journalism Practice

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South Africa and Nigeria. It incorporates the organizational and social system levels of gatekeeping to identify problematic work environments and influential cultural attitudes towards gender. Participants from both countries identified sexual abuse, sexual harassment, unfair job allocations, limited access to power, unfair pay, and overall unsafe work environments as significant problems. Nigerian participants stressed the influence of culture and religion, whereas South African participants also discussed race. Participants described varying degrees of organizational interventions and restitutions, but overall agreed organizations could do more. Cultural rape myths such as excusing the seriousness of sexual abuse, slut shaming, and victim blaming were more common in Nigerian participants. Solutions from participants mainly focused on promoting more women to managerial positions and newsroom training. However, many expressed the difficulties of eradicating sexism in journalism because of its pervasiveness in society.

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