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Toward a Critical Sociology of Gender Violence
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Toward a Critical Sociology of Gender Violence

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Gender Studies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 6104

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Sarah Jane Brubaker

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L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
Interests: gender violence; feminist theory; adolescence; critical theory; social justice; intersectionality

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Gender violence remains a major social problem despite decades of activism, research, and policy advancements. Sociology as a discipline provides valuable theoretical and methodological resources for understanding, preventing, and responding to gender violence, but much of this work remains siloed in academia and is rarely implemented in meaningful ways. Community-based activism has varied in its success, but organizations and activists largely continue to focus more on micro-level than macro-level insight and actions. Furthermore, the academics and community activists rarely work together in dialogue or collaboration to enhance one another’s work. This volume examines the potential to develop a critical sociology of gender violence that centers, methodologically, those actively working in communities, and in which their vision and work, coupled with sociological conceptualizations of structural processes of power, contribute to a deeper understanding of the problem and opportunities for change. We welcome conceptual and empirical articles that demonstrate such a critical sociological approach to addressing gender violence.

Prof. Dr. Sarah Jane Brubaker
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • gender violence
  • social activism
  • critical sociology
  • critical theory
  • participatory action research

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Toward a Critical Sociology of Campus Sexual Assault: Victim Advocacy as the Lifeworld Resisting the System
by Sarah Jane Brubaker
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(3), 125; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13030125 - 20 Feb 2024
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As scholars, practitioners and activists continue to strive to better understand, prevent and respond to campus sexual assault, we need stronger conceptual frameworks that provide insight into both causes and potential solutions. In this article, I propose a critical sociology of campus sexual [...] Read more.
As scholars, practitioners and activists continue to strive to better understand, prevent and respond to campus sexual assault, we need stronger conceptual frameworks that provide insight into both causes and potential solutions. In this article, I propose a critical sociology of campus sexual assault, informed by Jürgen Habermas’s and Dorothy Smith’s work, and illustrated through data from interviews with campus sexual assault victim advocates. Specifically, I examine how understanding policies and practices operating primarily through the system versus the lifeworld can help us to identify those that serve institutions versus those that serve survivors. I argue further that policies and practices that prioritize consensus, self-articulation, and care—those that promote a particular understanding of the “lifeworld”—can help us to resist systemic oppression that contributes to the problem of campus sexual assault, potentially strengthening our response to this problem. I argue that our best hope for more effective efforts to reduce and ultimately eliminate campus sexual assault requires collaboration among academics, activists and advocates who center the experiences of survivors, in the spirit of critical theory’s insistence on the active participation of citizens in their own emancipation from oppressive systems. Full article
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The Thread of Trauma: A Critical Analysis of the Criminal Legal System
by Tammi L. Slovinsky
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(9), 467; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12090467 - 22 Aug 2023
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A thread of trauma weaves throughout the U.S. criminal legal system, beginning with individual childhood experiences that are situated within families, communities, and systems that are embedded in structural oppression, thereby increasing the risk of initial and subsequent traumas. The criminal legal system, [...] Read more.
A thread of trauma weaves throughout the U.S. criminal legal system, beginning with individual childhood experiences that are situated within families, communities, and systems that are embedded in structural oppression, thereby increasing the risk of initial and subsequent traumas. The criminal legal system, where individuals who experience prior trauma are more likely to be system-involved, exposes racial minority youths especially to further trauma. This thread also impacts criminal legal system professionals who bear witness to the indirect trauma of victims and people who have harmed, which is often manifested in secondary and vicarious trauma symptoms, while may also cause them to grapple with their own prior trauma. The author offers a critical theory of trauma based on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological framework, first by examining select scholarly research on individual-, relationship-, community-, and system-level trauma, including trauma within the criminal legal system. The system is then examined through the lens of critical race theory, which both explains the persistence of oppression within the system and provides a path to reform by centering on the lived experiences of those most impacted. The author then applies the concepts of secondary and vicarious trauma, psychological safety, and institutional betrayal to explore original research on the impacts of working sex crimes on prosecutors. Finally, implications for system- and organizational-level change and recommendations for future research are offered, including the meaningful engagement of individuals with lived experiences in the development, implementation, and evaluation of victim-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive programs and services. Full article
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Only We Can Protect Us: Labor and Anti-Harassment Organizing within the Neoliberal University
by Erin O’Callaghan and Veronica Shepp
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(6), 330; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12060330 - 02 Jun 2023
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This special issue has called for scholars to critically evaluate how we can better connect with community activists to address gender-based violence (GBV). We seek to complicate this by instead positing the following: scholars and community activists should be one in the same. [...] Read more.
This special issue has called for scholars to critically evaluate how we can better connect with community activists to address gender-based violence (GBV). We seek to complicate this by instead positing the following: scholars and community activists should be one in the same. The authors reflect on their experiences combining their anti-GBV and labor organizing to take on the neoliberal university. We detail our experiences organizing graduate workers around anti-harassment and discrimination, what we have learned, and make recommendations to other scholar-activists working in their communities. We end with a toolkit that is meant to be widely produced and shared within the community for a helpful guide to work towards direct actions to address gender-based violence. Full article
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