F. Vera-Gray
‘talk about a cunt with too much idle time’: Trolling feminist research
Vera-Gray, F.
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Abstract
Given the growing popularity of online methods for researchers and the increasing awareness of the levels of harassment and abuse directed at women online—especially women expressing feminist views—it is critical that we address the implications of online abuse for feminist researchers. Focussing on an often hidden yet significant part of our methodological decisions and recruitment, this paper details the online abuse levelled by men’s rights activists against a research project on women’s experiences of men’s stranger intrusions in public space. It argues for the need to locate such experiences within a violence-against-women frame, extending the concept of a continuum of sexual violence. Such an extension renders visible the added labour of ‘safety work’, which forms an invisible backdrop to the methodological decisions of many feminist researchers.
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Vera-Gray, F. (2017). ‘talk about a cunt with too much idle time’: Trolling feminist research. Feminist Review, 115(1), 61-78. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0038-y
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 22, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | May 25, 2017 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jun 22, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | May 25, 2018 |
Journal | Feminist Review |
Print ISSN | 0141-7789 |
Electronic ISSN | 1466-4380 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 115 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 61-78 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0038-y |
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This is a post-peer-review pre-copyedit version of an article published in Feminist Review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Vera-Gray, F. (2017). ‘talk about a cunt with too much idle time’ Trolling feminist research. Feminist Review 115(1): 61-78 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0038-y
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