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Unmasking Violence

Campus Sexual and Gender-Based Violence During COVID-19

by Jessica Wright (Volume editor) Emily Colpitts (Volume editor) Alexandra Zidenberg (Volume editor)
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Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing social inequities and produced a ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender-based violence, including on post-secondary campuses where rates of gender-based violence are already exceptionally high. The shadow pandemic came at a time when post-secondary institutions were already facing unprecedented pressure to response to gender-based violence—and sexual violence in particular—on campus. Drawing on insights from researchers, practitioners, and student activists from across North America and the United Kingdom, and grounded in an anti-oppressive, feminist abolitionist, intersectional feminist framework, this book reflects on the ways that the pandemic impacted gender-based violence on campus and highlights the generative methods, both conceptually and practically, that those in the field are using to respond. The insights in each chapter provide lessons from the pandemic that inform how we can reject a "return to normal" and, instead, imagine new possibilities for more just campuses and worlds moving forward.

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Pages
ISBN (PDF)
9781636673158
ISBN (ePUB)
9781636674872
DOI
10.3726/b22868
Language
English
Publication date
2025 (September)
Keywords
Gender-based violence campus violence youth violence prevention campus safety sexual violence activism post-secondary institutions Unmasking Violence Campus Sexual and Gender-based Violence During COVID-19 Alexandra M. Zidenberg Emily M. Colpitts JJ Wright
Published
New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2025. 330 pp., 1 fig., 6 tables
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Biographical notes

Jessica Wright (Volume editor) Emily Colpitts (Volume editor) Alexandra Zidenberg (Volume editor)

Dr. JJ Wright, PhD (she/they) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at MacEwan University. Through community-engaged scholarship using creative and participatory methods, she examines gender-based violence prevention and 2SLGBTQ+ justice. Her research informs policy and practice to advance safety, equity, and systemic change. Dr. Emily M. Colpitts (she/her) holds a PhD in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies from York University and currently works at a non-profit research organization. Her research interests include policies and practices to address gendered violence on campus, the politics of care, critical masculinities, and anti-feminist backlash. Alexandra M. Zidenberg, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology at the University of Montreal. She researches forensic psychology and human sexuality topics; focusing on subjects like sexual violence, paraphilias, multiple perpetrator sexual offenses, and incels.

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