| Contents |
Introduction: Sexual Misconduct and Mass Media -- Discourse of Sexual Misconduct -- Trial by Media -- Politicization of Sexual Misconduct -- Stigma and the "Weinstein Effect" -- #Me Too Phenomenon -- Acknowledging Sexual Misconduct and the "Grey Zone" -- Concluding Thoughts: Sexual Misconduct and the Pursuit of Justice. |
| Abstract |
"Defining Sexual Misconduct investigates shifts in media coverage of sexual violence and details significant changes in public discourse about sexual harm. In 2015, the New York Times ran just a single headline with the term "sexual misconduct." Three years later, it ran dozens of such headlines, averaging more than one per week, and expanded coverage across other media organizations followed. This shift in coverage is reflective of significant changes in public discourse about sexual harm that has helped to hold some perpetrators accountable for their behaviour; it has also helped pave the path for #MeToo and related movements to garner national and global attention. In Defining Sexual Misconduct, Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider examine the contemporary dynamics of public accusations and their relationship to more formal criminal justice processes, as well as the implications for the stigmatization of alleged abusers and public response to alleged victims."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-260) and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic formats. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Hannem, Stacey, 1979- Defining sexual misconduct. Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2022 088977868X 9780889778689 |
| ISBN | 0889778094 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780889778092 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780889778702 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0889778701 hardcover |
