UO Psychology 607 Graduate Seminar

Winter 2018

Sexual Violence and Institutional Responsibilities

Instructor Jennifer Freyd

Syllabus

Short Title: Sex Viol/Inst Resp. 

Student option for grading (Grade or P/N)
2-3 credits
Day/time/location:  THURSDAYS 13:00-14:50 in 257 Straub
Psychology grads only

CRN: 25872
Grading option: Optional
Credits: 2-3

Overview: We will consider theory, research, and current concerns regarding sexual violence and related institutional responsibilities.

• Kate Harding. Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture – and What We Can Do About It. Da Capo, 2015.
• Jessica Luther. Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape. Akashic Books, 2016.
• Danielle L. McGuire. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. New York: Vintage, 2010.

Book reading plan with approximate number of pages. In weeks with fewer than 100 book pages we will also read articles

Course Work: Students will be expected to attend all class meetings, do all assigned readings, and to participate actively in seminar discussion. In addition, each participant will lead a class discussion and, in advance of the class meeting, email to the class discussion questions by the Monday at noon before the Thursday class. By the Monday at noon following the class, the student(s) leading discussion will email to the class a document including the discussion questions, any other presentation material, and capturing important discussion points from class.

General Policies and Resources: Please see the Psychology of Trauma syllabus for policies and links regarding academic integrity, accommodations, disclosures, etc., and a list of community and campus resources.

Additional Readings Lists

In creating the readings list for this course, I collected possible books and aricles. Some are actually assigned, some not. The lists are included here for your further reading and exploring.

Possible fiction and autobiography for the seminar:

• Laura Gray-Rosendale. College Girl. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2013.
• Lara Naughton. The Jaguar Man. Central Recovery Press, 2016.
• Liz Securro. Crash Into Me: A Survivor’s Search for Justice. New York: Bloomsbury, 2011.

Possible non fiction books for the seminar:

• Elizabeth Armstrong. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Harvard, 2015.
• Jon Krakauer. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. Doubleday, 2015.
• Kate Harding. Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture – and What We Can Do About It. Da Capo, 2015.
• Jessica Luther. Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape. Akashic Books, 2016
• Danielle L. McGuire. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. New York: Vintage, 2010.

Possible articles:

• Abbey, A.D., Jacques-Tiura, A.J., & Parkhill, M.R. (2009). Sexual assault among diverse populations of women: common ground, distinctive features, and unanswered questions In Landrine, H., & Russo, N. F. (Eds.), Handbook of diversity in feminist psychology (pp. 391-425). New York City, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
• Acker, J. (2006). Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations. Gender and Society, 20, 441-464.
• Baker, K.J.M. (2017, August 7). Meet the professor who says sex in a blackout isn't always rape. Buzzfeed. Retrieved from https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/meet-the-expert-witness-who-says-sex-in-a-blackout-isnt?utm_term=.sf7Ybqrm2#.ukoYk83PN
• Beaton, A. (2017, September 2-3). College football’s 2017 grid of shame. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from: https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-footballs-2017-grid-of-shame-1504194945
• Berdahl, J., & Moore, C. (2006). Workplace harassment: Double jeopardy for minority women. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 426-436. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.2.426
  
• Brosi, M., & Foubert, J., & Bannon, R.S., & Yandell, G. (2011). Effects of sorority members' pornography use on bystander intervention in a sexual assault situation and rape myth acceptance. Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors, 6, 26-35.
• Buchanan, N.T., & Fitzgerald, L.F. (2008). Effects of racial and sexual harassment on work and the psychological well-being of African American women. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 13, 137-151. doi: 10.1037/1076-8998.13.2.137
• Buchanan, N.T. & West, C.M. (2009). Sexual harassment in the lives of women of color. In Landrine, H., & Russo, N. F. (Eds.), Handbook of diversity in feminist psychology (pp. 449-476). New York City, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
• Cho, S.K. (2003). Converging stereotypes in racialized sexual harassment. In A.K. Wing (ed), Critical race feminism: A reader (pp.349-366) New York City, NY: New York University Press
• Chu, S. (2017, November 3). A refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the key of English major. ENTROPY. Retrieved from: https://entropymag.org/a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-fugues-in-the-key-of-english-major/
• Clancy, K.B.H., Lee, K.M.N., Rodgers, E.M., & Richey, C. (2017). Double jeopardy in astronomy and planetary science: Women of color face greater risks of gendered and racial harassment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122, 1610–1623. doi: 10.1002/2017JE005256.
• Conn, J.R. (2017, November 6). Brenda Tracy’s fight against college football’s rape culture. The Ringer. Retrieved from: https://www.theringer.com/features/2017/11/6/16599528/brenda-tracy-advocate-against-college-football-rape-culture
• DeKeseredy, W. S., Hall-Sanchez, A., & Nolan, J. (2017). College campus sexual assault: The contribution of peers’ pro-abuse informational support and attachments to abusive peers. Violence Against Women. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1077801217724920
• Dietz, D. (2016, May 26). Students unable to clean up lake mess. The Register-Guard, p. A1.
• Fitzgerald, L. (2017). Still the last great open secret: Sexual harassment as systemic trauma. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 18, 483-489. doi: 10.1080/15299732.2017.1309143
• Flaherty, C. (2017, November 9). Ghost from the past. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/09/essay-about-being-raped-professor-sparks-call-public-acknowledgment-stanford-and
• Flaherty, C. (2017, November 13). Not so Cold Cases, After All. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/13/whats-be-done-about-numerous-reports-faculty-misconduct-dating-back-years-and-even
• Flood, M. (2017, July 31). Universities have a problem with sexual assault and harassment: Here’s how to fix it. The Conversation. Retrieved from: http://theconversation.com/universities-have-a-problem-with-sexual-assault-and-harassment-heres-how-to-fix-it-81096
• Foubert, J.D., Brosi, M.W., & Bannon, S.R. (2011). Pornography viewing among fraternity men: Effects on bystander intervention, rape myth acceptance and behavioral intent to commit sexual assault, Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 18, 212-231. doi: 0.1080/10720162.2011.625552
• Freyd, J.J. (2016). The Problem with “Required Reporting” Rules for Sexual Violence on Campus. The Blog, Huffington Post, April 25, 2016.
• Freyd, J.J. (2018). When sexual assault victims speak out, their institutions often betray them, The Conversation, 11 January 2018.
• Frieze, I.H. & Chen, K.Y. (2009). Intimate partner violence: Perspectives from racial/ethnic groups in the United States. In Landrine, H., & Russo, N. F. (Eds.), Handbook of diversity in feminist psychology (pp. 427-447). New York City, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
• Hartzler, B., & Fromme, K. (2003). Fragmentary and en bloc blackouts: Similarity and distinction among episodes of alcohol-induced memory loss. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 64, 547-550. doi: 10.15288/jsa.2003.64.547
• Holland, K. J., Cortina, L. M., & Freyd, J. J. (2018, January 22). Compelled Disclosure of College Sexual AssaultAmerican Psychologist. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000186
• Hollander, J.A. (2016). The importance of self-defense training for sexual violence prevention. Feminism & Psychology, 26, 207–226.
• Jackson, V.L. (2018, January 11). Take it from a former division I athlete: college sports are like Jim Crow. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-college-sports-20180111-story.html
• Jacoby, K. (2017, October 25). Why Oregon's title IX investigation of Kavell Bigby-Williams's alleged rape stalled before it began. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved from: https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2017/10/25/oregon-kavell-bigby-williams-title-ix-investigation
• Johnson, C.M.E. (2015). “Just because I dance like a ho I’m not a ho”: Cheerleading at the intersection of race, class, and gender. Sociology of Sport Journal, 32, 377-394. doi: 10.1123/ssj.2014-0081
• Jordan, E.C. (2003). Race, gender, and social class in the Thomas sexual harassment hearings. In A.K. Wing (ed), Critical race feminism: A reader (pp.367-372) New York City, NY: New York University Press
• Kelly, L. (2010). The (in)credible words of women: False allegations in European rape research. Violence Against Women, 16, 1345-1355. doi: 10.1177/1077801210387748
• Kerr, E. (2018, January 12). The NCAA as modern Jim Crow? A sports historian explains why she drew the parallel. The Chronical of Higher Education. Retrieved from: https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-NCAA-as-Modern-Jim-Crow-A/242240
• Kingsolver, B. (2018). #MeToo isn’t enough. Now women need to get ugly. The Guardian, 16 January 2018.
• Lisak, D., Gardinier, L., Nicksa, S.C., & Cote, A.M. (2010). False allegations of sexual assault: An analysis of ten years of reported cases. Violence Against Women, 16, 1318-1334. doi: 10.1177/1077801210387747
• Lonsway, K.A. (2010). Trying to move the elephant in the living room: Responding to the challenge of false rape reports. Violence Against Women, 16, 1356-1371. doi: 10.1177/1077801210387750
• Martin, P.Y. (2016) The rape prone culture of academic contexts: fraternities and athletics, Gender & Society, 30, 30-43
• Mascagni, B. (2017). Rape, apology, and the business of title IX compliance. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 5, 182-196. doi: 10.1080/21565503.2016.1273123
• Ong, M. (2005). Body projects of young women of color in physics: intersections of gender, race, and science. Social Problems, 52, 593-617.
• Rosenthal, M.N., Smidt, A.M., & Freyd, J.J. (2016). Still second class: Sexual harassment of graduate students. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40, 364-377.
• Rosenthal, M., Smith, C.P, & Freyd, J.J. (in press). Behind closed doors: University employees as stakeholders in campus sexual violence. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. https://doi.org/10.1108/JACPR-02-2017-0272
• Russell, C. (2017, October 27). Confronting sexual harassment in science. Scientific American. Retrieved from: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confronting-sexual-harassment-in-science/
• Senn, C.Y., Eliasziw, M., Hobden, K.L., Newby-Clark, I.R., Barata, P.C., Radtke, H.L., & Thurston, W.E. (2017). Secondary and 2-year outcomes of a sexual assault resistance program for university women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 41, 147-162. doi: 10.1177/0361684317690119
• Senn, C. (2017). Rape at universities: One program is proven to reduce it. The Conversation, 4 September 2017.
• Smith, C.P. & Freyd, J.J. (2014). Institutional betrayal. American Psychologist, 69, 575-587.
• Weiss, B. (2018). Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader. The New York Times, 15 January 2018.
• West, L. (2018). Aziz, we tried to warn you. The New York Times, 17 January 2018.
• Wetherill, R.R., & Fromme, K. (2016). Alcohol-induced blackouts: A review of recent clinical research with practical implications and recommendations for future studies. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 40, 922-935. doi: 10.1111/acer.13051
• Whittier, N. (2017). Review: Rethinking sexual violence. Contexts, 11, 70-72.
• Williams, J.C., Phillips, K.W., & Hall, E.V. (2015, January) Double Jeopardy? Gender bias against women of color in science. Worklife Law. Retrieved from: http://worklifelaw.org/publication/double-jeopardy-gender-bias-against-women-of-color-in-science/
• Young, B.-R., Desmarais, S.L., Baldwin, J.A., & Chandler, R. (2017). Sexual coercion practices among undergraduate male recreational athletes, intercollegiate athletes, and non-athletes. Violence Against Women, 23, 795-812. doi: 10.1177/1077801216651339

Weekly Reading Assignments

Week 1, January 11

Readings:

• Freyd, J.J. (2018). When sexual assault victims speak out, their institutions often betray them, The Conversation, 11 January 2018.
• Smith, C.P. & Freyd, J.J. (2014). Institutional betrayal. American Psychologist, 69, 575-587.
• Conn, J.R. (2017, November 6). Brenda Tracy’s fight against college football’s rape culture. The Ringer. Retrieved from: https://www.theringer.com/features/2017/11/6/16599528/brenda-tracy-advocate-against-college-football-rape-culture

Week 2, January 18

Discussion Leader: Melissa Barnes

Readings:

• Start McGuire book: Prologue & Ch. 1 (48 pgs.)
• Buchanan & Fitzgerald, 2008
• Abbey et al., 2009
• Jordan, 2003

Recommended Readings

• Buchanan & West, 2009
• Berdahl & Moore, 2006
• Cho, 2003
• Williams et al., 2014
  

Week 3, January 25

Discussion Leader: Aleks Perez Grabow

Readings:

• Start Harding book: Part 1 (80 pgs)
• Continue McGuire: Chapter 2 (36 pgs)
• Weiss, B. (2018). Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader. The New York Times, 15 January 2018.
• West, L. (2018). Aziz, we tried to warn you. The New York Times, 17 January 2018.

Week 4, February 1

Discussion Leader: Alec Smidt

Readings:

• Continue Harding Book: Part 2 (60 pgs)
• Rosenthal, M.N., Smidt, A.M., & Freyd, J.J. (2016). Still second class: Sexual harassment of graduate students. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40, 364-377.
• Chu, S. (2017, November 3). A refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the key of English major. ENTROPY. Retrieved from: https://entropymag.org/a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-fugues-in-the-key-of-english-major/
• Flaherty, C. (2017, November 9). Ghost from the past. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/09/essay-about-being-raped-professor-sparks-call-public-acknowledgment-stanford-and
• Flaherty, C. (2017, November 13). Not so Cold Cases, After All. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/13/whats-be-done-about-numerous-reports-faculty-misconduct-dating-back-years-and-even
  
  

Week 5, February 8

Discussion Leader: Anna Cook

Readings:

• Finish Harding book: Part 3 (80 pgs)
• Hollander, J.A. (2016). The importance of self-defense training for sexual violence prevention. Feminism & Psychology, 26, 207–226.
• Kingsolver, B. (2018). #MeToo isn’t enough. Now women need to get ugly. The Guardian, 16 January 2018.
  
• Senn, C.Y., Eliasziw, M., Hobden, K.L., Newby-Clark, I.R., Barata, P.C., Radtke, H.L., & Thurston, W.E. (2017). Secondary and 2-year outcomes of a sexual assault resistance program for university women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 41, 147-162. doi: 10.1177/0361684317690119
• Senn, C. (2017). Rape at universities: One program is proven to reduce it. The Conversation, 4 September 2017.

Week 6, February 15

Discussion Leader: Liz Loi

Readings:

• Continue McGuire book: Chapter 3 (51 pgs)
• Brosi, M., & Foubert, J., & Bannon, R.S., & Yandell, G. (2011). Effects of sorority members' pornography use on bystander intervention in a sexual assault situation and rape myth acceptance. Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors, 6, 26-35.
• Christman, J. (2018). Slaughterhouse island.
• Dietz, D. (2016, May 26). Students unable to clean up lake mess. The Register-Guard, p. A1.
  
• Foubert, J.D., Brosi, M.W., & Bannon, S.R. (2011). Pornography viewing among fraternity men: Effects on bystander intervention, rape myth acceptance and behavioral intent to commit sexual assault, Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 18, 212-231. doi: 0.1080/10720162.2011.625552
• Martin, P.Y. (2016) The rape prone culture of academic contexts: fraternities and athletics, Gender & Society, 30, 30-43.
• Rosenthal, M.N., Smith, C.P, & Freyd, J.J. (in preparation).  Pledged into violence: Sorority and fraternity members face increased risk of sexual assault and sexual harassment.
  
  

Week 7, February 22

Discussion Leader: Alexis Adams-Clark

Readings:

• Continue McGuire book: Chapters 4 & 5 (56 pgs)
• Beaton, A. (2017, September 2-3). College football’s 2017 grid of shame. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from: https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-footballs-2017-grid-of-shame-1504194945
• Jackson, V.L. (2018, January 11). Take it from a former division I athlete: college sports are like Jim Crow. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-college-sports-20180111-story.html
  
• Kerr, E. (2018, January 12). The NCAA as modern Jim Crow? A sports historian explains why she drew the parallel. The Chronical of Higher Education. Retrieved from: https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-NCAA-as-Modern-Jim-Crow-A/242240
• Young, B.-R., Desmarais, S.L., Baldwin, J.A., & Chandler, R. (2017). Sexual coercion practices among undergraduate male recreational athletes, intercollegiate athletes, and non-athletes. Violence Against Women, 23, 795-812. doi: 10.1177/1077801216651339

Week 8, March 1

Discussion Leader: Monika Lind

Readings:

• Continue McGuire book: Chapters 6 & 7 (55 pgs)
• Start Luther book: Intorduction and Chapters 1 & 2 (60 pages)

Week 9, March 8

Special Guest: Brenda Tracy

Readings:

• Finish McGuire book: Chapter 8 & Prologue (39 pgs)
• Continue Luther book: Chapter 3, 4 & 5 (70 pages)
  

Week 10, March 15

Discussion Leader: Brenna McNeil

Readings:

• Finish Luther book: Part II & Conclusion (80 pages)
• Freyd, J.J. (2016). The Problem with “Required Reporting” Rules for Sexual Violence on Campus. The Blog, Huffington Post, April 25, 2016.
• Holland, K. J., Cortina, L. M., & Freyd, J. J. (2018, January 22). Compelled Disclosure of College Sexual AssaultAmerican Psychologist. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000186