RT Article
T1 A Balancing Act: Agency and Constraints in University Students’ Understanding of and Responses to Sexual Violence in the Night-Time Economy
JF Violence against women
VO 27
IS 11
SP 2043
OP 2065
A1 Anitha, Sundari
A2 Jordan, Ana
A2 Jameson, Jill
A2 Davy, Zowie
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767144024
AB This article extends our understanding of how university students make sense of, and respond to, sexual violence in the night-time economy (NTE). Based on semi-structured interviews with 26 students in a city in England, we examine students’ constructions of their experiences of sexual violence within the NTE, exploring their negotiations with, and resistance to, this violence. Building upon theories of postfeminism, we interrogate the possibilities for resistance within the gendered spaces of the NTE and propose a disaggregated conceptualization of agency to understand responses to sexual violence, thereby offering useful insights for challenging sexual violence in the NTE and in universities.
K1 Agency
K1 postfeminism
K1 Night-time economy
K1 gender-based violence
K1 Sexual Violence
DO 10.1177/1077801220908325