RT Article
T1 She Left the Party: College Students’ Meanings of Sexual Consent
JF Violence against women
VO 27
IS 6/7
SP 766
OP 789
A1 Groggel, Anne
A2 Burdick, Maddie
A2 Barraza, Angel
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1755889607
AB At a moment when college sexual assault is described as an epidemic, it is important to understand college students’ implicit meanings of consent. Through 83 interviews, we examine students’ interpretations of a vignette in which neither character asked nor gave consent to sex. Gendered expectations significantly shaped whether students interpreted the male or female character as giving consent. When considering how students indicate interest in kissing or having sex, students interpreted acts such as leaving a party as indications of a man’s sexual interest and a woman’s willingness. That is, college students “expected” and employed implicit, gendered readings of actions that inform their understandings of implicit consent.
K1 Symbolic interactionism
K1 Mixed Methods
K1 Gender
K1 College students
K1 Sexual consent
DO 10.1177/1077801220911462