Sexual Misconduct Discourses Within a Gendered Campus Environment

• In Event: 52.041 - Higher Education Leadership Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Student Services

Abstract

Using data from focus groups, class papers and institutional documents, this paper examines discourses around sexual misconduct at two single-sex Catholic colleges in the Midwest and considers how these discourses reflect a gendered campus environment. Participants understood sexual assault through three interrelated discourses that suggest specific opportunities for campus interventions.

Author

• Kathryn A.E. Enke, College of Saint Benedict