Collaborating for Change Transforming Cultures to End Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education

In the midst of unprecedented attention to gender based violence (GBV), prompted in part by the #MeToo movement, Collaborating for Change: Transforming Cultures to End Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education provides a groundbreaking analysis of higher education culture and how it can be transformed to eradicate GBV.

This book builds on existing scholarship and practice, offering unique reflections from faculty, staff, and students about potential avenues for change that go beyond programs and policies. It recognizes the important work achieved to date on this topic but argues that transformation of cultures, rather than reform of practices, is now required. Starting from the premise that cultural change must be embedded in groups of people working together, the contributors to the book offer insights into what makes for constructive, effective collaborations between activists in universities and the wider community, as well as with university leaders, managers, and policy-makers.

The volume is an interdisciplinary, international account/analysis of attempts to transform higher education cultures in an attempt to eradicate GBV. The chapters, contributed by leading scholars and practitioners in the field, span the experiences of GBV in Canada, the United States, Scotland, England, France, and India. Collaborating for Change reveals the different institutional, political, and cultural contexts in which activists, scholars, and practitioners endeavor to eradicate GBV and provides insights for others engaged in this work around the globe. The book argues that nothing short of a transformation is required to make higher education safe for all.

Susan B. Marine is Associate Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education and Social Policy at Merrimack College. She is the author of Stonewall's Legacy: Bisexual, Gay, lesbian, and Transgender Students in Higher Education.

Ruth Lewis is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University.

Introduction: Mapping the Landscape, Susan B. Marine and Ruth Lewis

Section 1: Naming and theorizing gender-based violence in universities
Chapter 1: Transforming Campus Rape Culture: Lessons from Complexity Theory, Diane Crocker and Marcus A. Sibley
Chapter 2: From #MeToo to #HimToo in Academia: New Forms of Feminist Activism to Challenge Sexual Violence, Sundari Anitha

Section 2: Transforming Students, and Students Transforming
Chapter 3: Teaching "Love and War": Bringing Gender-Based Violence into the Light Through Stories in the University Classroom, Dawn Barker Floyd and Michael Funk Deckard
Chapter 4: Challenging University 'Lad Culture': The Successes of, and Challenges for, Collaborative University Activism, Annis Stenson

Section 3: Building Collaboratives to End GBV: Within the University, and Beyond
Chapter 5: Feminist Activism Among Academic Staff in the Movement to Address Gender Based Violence on Campus, Catherine Donovan, Khatidja Chantler. Rachel Fenton, and Kelly Bracewell
Chapter 6: Leveraging Partnerships Between Faculty and Staff to Transform Rape Culture on Campus, Andrew J. Rizzo, LB Klein, Zachary Ahmad-Kahloon, Meera Seshadri, LaWanda Swan, and Lee Helmken Cherry
Chapter 7: Building Authentic Partnerships for Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Universities, Michele Burman, Kathryn Dawson, Lauren McDougall, Karen Morton, and Fatemeh Nokhbatolfoghahai
Chapter 8: Challenging Institutional Resistance: Collaborative Efforts Against Gender Based Violence at a French University, Arlette Gautier, Marie-Laure Deroff, Pierre-Guillaume Prigent, and Sophie Hellegouarc'h

Conclusion: Reflecting On and Looking Forward to Transformation, Ruth Lewis and Susan B. Marine
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