"I Didn't Want To Be 'That Girl'": The Social Risks of Labeling, Telling, and Reporting Sexual Assault

This article deploys ethnographic data to explain why some students do not label experiences as sexual assault or report those experiences. Using ideas of social risks and productive ambiguities, it argues that not labeling or reporting assault can help students (1) sustain their current identities...

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Main Authors: Shamus R. Khan, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Alexander Wamboldt, Claude A. Mellins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2018-07-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v5-19-432/