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Feminism in Conversation: Campus Sexual Violence and the Negotiation Within

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Feminism in Conversation: Campus Sexual Violence and the Negotiation Within
Abstract
This article traces the evolution of the feminist “sex wars” in contemporary debates about campus sexual violence reform in Canada and the United States – what Emily Bazelon calls the “return of the sex wars” at American colleges and universities. The "return of the sex wars" has been characterized by many of the same unproductive hostilities and painful acrimony as the original fight between feminist sex radicals and anti-pornography feminists over three decades ago. This article focuses on a particularly controversial issue in these debates: the role of consensual dispute resolution (i.e., negotiation, mediation, and restorative justice) in addressing campus sexual violence. Employing a two-person counter conversational methodology, the article stages a negotiation between two feminists with competing and representative views on this issue. Feminist concerns about consensual dispute resolution raise challenging questions about the rise of informal justice and its implications for the rule of law in campus sexual violence cases. The article concludes by arguing that the intense polarization and politicization of the "return of the sex wars" has led to a hollowing out of the feminist critical discourse in this area, which has prevented some feminists from engaging with consensual dispute resolution as a potentially viable and redemptive means of sexual regulation on campus.
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3898567
Place
Rochester, NY
Date
2021
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9/29/23, 4:48 PM
Short Title
Feminism in Conversation
Language
en
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Social Science Research Network
Citation
Del Gobbo, D. (2021). Feminism in Conversation: Campus Sexual Violence and the Negotiation Within (SSRN Scholarly Paper 3898567). https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3898567
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