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‘talk about a cunt with too much idle time’: Trolling feminist research

Vera-Gray, F.

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F. Vera-Gray



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.

Citation

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
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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