Everyday victimization of adolescent girls by boys: Sexual harassment, bullying or aggression?
- Authors: Shute, Rosalyn , Owens, Larry , Slee, Phillip
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sex Roles Vol. 58, no. 7-8 (2008), p. 477-489
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- Description: School-based sexual harassment of adolescent girls by boys appears commonplace, yet aggression and bullying studies rarely yield sexualized material. This qualitative Australian study with 72 14- to 15-year-olds and 7 teachers aimed to discover whether interviewer use of neutral language in gender-segregated focus groups and interviews would yield material indicating that the victimization of girls by boys is sexualized. Verbal and indirect victimization were reported to be everyday occurrences, and almost entirely sexual. Findings are discussed in the light of definitions of sexual harassment, bullying and aggression. It is concluded that the term "sexual bullying" appropriately captures the gendered power structure underlying these behaviors. As such, they need to be understood, and become visible, more broadly than in terms of individual pathology. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Girls' aggressive behaviour
- Authors: Owens, Larry , Shute, Rosalyn , Slee, Phillip
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The Prevention Researcher Vol. 11, no. 3 (2004), p. 9-10
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- Description: In contrast to boys' bullying behavior which is often overt and easily visible, girls' aggression is usually indirect and covert. Less research has been conducted on the types of bullying that girls usually engage in. Using focus groups composed of teenaged girls, Dr. Owens and colleagues examine the nature of teenage girls' indirect aggression. Behaviors by the girls in the focus group found that "bitching" was a common way for girls to join together and defame their peers. Girls also reported using exclusionary behaviors, such as ignoring others, and indirect harassment such as leaving hurtful messages. Reasons given for participating in this behavior include alleviating boredom and to be part of a group.
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