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'Lad culture' and sexual violence against students

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posted on 2023-06-09, 09:20 authored by Alison Phipps
This chapter addresses the issue of sexual violence against students and the concept of ‘lad culture’, which has been used to frame this phenomenon in the UK and has connections to similar debates around masculinities in other countries. This issue is much-researched and debated but under-theorised, and due to a lack of intersectionality, radical feminist frameworks around violence against women are useful but incomplete. The chapter sketches a more nuanced approach to the understanding of campus sexual violence and the masculine cultures which frame it, which also engages with the intersecting structures of patriarchy and neoliberalism. It argues that framing these issues structurally and institutionally is necessary, in order to avoid individualistic and punitive approaches to tackling them which may seem feminist but are embedded in neoliberal rationalities.

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Publisher

Routledge

Pages

332.0

Book title

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781472483515

Department affiliated with

  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Centre for Gender Studies Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Nancy Lombard

Legacy Posted Date

2017-12-13

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-12-12

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