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Rape Victim Advocates' Perceptions of the #MeToo Movement: Opportunities, Challenges, and Sustainability.
- Source :
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence; Jan2023, Vol. 38 Issue 1/2, pNP336-NP365, 30p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Awareness of the frequency of sexual victimization has been promoted through the #MeToo movement that opened the floodgates for survivors of sexual harassment, victimization, and violence to disclose their victimization. This research explores 41 rape victim advocates' perceptions of the #MeToo movement and concludes that they recognize its strengths and weaknesses. They credit the movement for: empowering survivors to disclose their experience possibly due to reduced stigma surrounding sexual victimization given the number of disclosures, providing support through social media from other survivors, and increasing societal awareness of the prevalence of sexual victimization. Those interviewed fault the movement for: giving the false perception that since so many survivors are stepping forward then reports must be fabricated, pressuring victims to support the movement through disclose and criticizing those who do not disclose, and hindering survivors' ability to escape media and social media coverage of sexual victimization. Advocates perceived #MeToo to be more of a "movement" rather than a "moment." However, to sustain its progress advocates suggested that action must be taken to create change for survivors and to reduce the occurrence of sexual victimization through policy/legal change and perpetrator accountability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SEX crime prevention
PREVENTION of sexual harassment
RAPE & psychology
VIOLENCE prevention
PATIENT advocacy -- Law & legislation
DISCLOSURE
RESEARCH
HEALTH policy
PATIENT advocacy
SOCIAL support
SAMPLE size (Statistics)
RESEARCH evaluation
RAPE
LEGAL status of crime victims
GROUNDED theory
SOCIAL media
SOCIAL norms
HELP-seeking behavior
INTERVIEWING
SOCIAL stigma
CRIME victims
EXPERIENCE
QUALITATIVE research
RESEARCH funding
SOUND recordings
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
STATISTICAL sampling
THEMATIC analysis
HEALTH promotion
SOCIAL responsibility
LEGISLATION
LAW
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08862605
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160479313
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221081929