Collaborating for change : transforming cultures to end gender-based violence in higher education / edited by Susan B. Marine and Ruth Lewis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Mapping the landscape / Susan B. Marine and Ruth Lewis -- Transforming campus rape culture: lessons from complexity theory / Diane Crocker and Marcus A. Sibley -- From #MeToo to #HimToo in academia: new forms of feminist activism to challenge sexual violence -- Sundari Anitha -- Teaching "love and war": bringing gender-based violence into the light through stories in the university classroom / Dawn Barker Floyd and Michael Funk Deckard -- Challenging university "lad culture": the successes of and challenges for collaboratve university activisim / Annis Stenson -- Feminist activism among academic staff in the movement to address gender-based violence on campus / Catherine Donovan, Khatidja Chantler, Rachel Fenton, and Kelly Bracewell -- Leveraging partnerships between faculty and staff to transform rape culture on campus / Andrew J. Rizzo, L.B. Klein, Zachary Ahmad-Kahloon, Meera Seshadri, LaWanda Swan, and Lee Helmken Cherry -- Building authentic partnerships for responding to gender-based violence in universities / Michele Burman, Kathryn Dawson, Lauren McDougall, Karen Morton, and Fatemeh Nokhbatolfoghahai -- Challenging institutional resistance: collaborative efforts against gender-based violence at a French university / Arlette Gautier, Marie-Laure Déroff, Pierre-Guillaume Prigent, and Sophie Hellégouarch -- Conclusion: Reflecting on and looking forward to transformation / Ruth Lewis and Susan B. Marine.

"In the midst of unprecedented attention to gender based violence (GBV) globally, prompted in part by the #MeToo movement, this book provides a new analysis of how higher education cultures can be transformed. It offers reflections from faculty, staff and students about how change has happened and could happen on their campuses in ways that go beyond implementation of programmes and policies. Building on what is already known from decades of scholarship and practice in the US, and more recent attention elsewhere, this book provides an inter-disciplinary, international overview of attempts to transform higher education cultures in order to eradicate GBV. Change happens because people act, usually with others. At the heart of transformative efforts lie collaborations between faculty, staff, students, activists and community organisations. The contributors to the book reflect on what makes for constructive, effective collaborations and how to avoid the common mistakes in working with others to end GBV. They consider what has worked to challenge the reluctance-or outright hostility-they have encountered in their work against GBV and how their collaborations have succeeded in transforming the ways we think about GBV and what we do about it. Chapters focus on experiences in Canada, the US, England, Scotland, France and India to examine different approaches to tackling GBV in higher education. They reveal the cultural variations in which GBV occurs as well as the similarities across cultures-that GBV is committed overwhelmingly by men against women and reflects a determination to assert masculine power. Together, they demonstrate that, to make higher education a safe environment for all, nothing short of a transformation is required"-- Provided by publisher.