This blog is a repository of critiques or ignoring of self-defense and responses by self-defense scholars and instructors.
SELF-DEFENSE
IN FEMINIST AND ANTI-VIOLENCE MOVEMENTS
SELF-DEFENSE
SCHOLARS AND INSTRUCTORS RESPONSES
10
feminist reasons to advocate for self-defense, including the decades of
research that provide evidence that self-defense stops rape and sexual assault
and teaches men not to rape.
Stone, Meg. September 14, 2010. A call forself-defense against victim blaming AND against rape. Presents reasons why it is important to hold perpetrators, not victims,
responsible for rape and to offer self-defense with a social justice
perspective.
Reveals
the shortcomings in rape prevention by comparing to the approach to dealing
with swine flu, the threat of which was a prominent news story in 2009.
Addresses
the critique that self-defense training inherently blames victims and offers an
overview of an empowerment-approach to teaching self-defense.
van der Zande, Irene. 2014. October 31, 2013. Positive prevention to stop violence without blaming victims.
Compares and contrasts “Positive Prevention” knowledge and skills with “Negative Prevention” advice.
Wanamaker,Lynn Marie. December 24, 2012. Helping women overcome "self-defenseparadox."
Compares and contrasts “Positive Prevention” knowledge and skills with “Negative Prevention” advice.
Wanamaker,Lynn Marie. December 24, 2012. Helping women overcome "self-defenseparadox."
An
overview of how a social-justice empowerment-based self-defense addresses
the paradox of self-defense.
Four
priorities in addressing the problem of sexual assault on college campuses:
· More information about the problem
with campus climate surveys
· Engage men as allies and empowering
them to step in when someone’s in trouble
· Develop effective institutional
supports for when a student is sexually assaulted
· Increase transparency by posting
sexual assault data and improving law enforcement
SELF-DEFENSE
SCHOLARS AND INSTRUCTORS RESPONSES
Addresses
the value of self-defense training as providing a short-term strategy between
the current situation and the days when bystanders will reliably intervene and
as challenging the implication that women are inherently vulnerable and in need
of protection.
Points to
ways that the report frames women as damsels in distress, needing men to
protect them. Discusses the value of self-defense training for stopping sexual
assault.
Collection
of responses to the White House Task Force Report.
Stone, Meg. September 11, 2014. Campus Rape Crisis: What is Missing from the White House Sexual Violence Plan.
Acknowledges the importance of offering programs that are evidence-based; raises questions about why self-defense programs are not included when there is substantial evidence of their effectiveness.
Stone, Meg. September 11, 2014. Campus Rape Crisis: What is Missing from the White House Sexual Violence Plan.
Acknowledges the importance of offering programs that are evidence-based; raises questions about why self-defense programs are not included when there is substantial evidence of their effectiveness.
Acknowledges the value of the White House Task Force
recommendations, but points to the lack of self-defense training in the report
and the problem with a focus on what men can do to save women and what experts
can do to help assault victims deal with the aftermath.
NIA
SANCHEZ, 2014 MISS USA June 9, 2014
A
compilation of reactions to Nia Sanchez’s response to a Miss USA judge’s
question about sexual assault. Sanchez said that women need to be able to
defend themselves against sexual assault.
SELF-DEFENSE
SCHOLARS AND INSTRUCTORS RESPONSES
Offers
support to Nia Sanchez by acknowledging the uphill battle in bringing
self-defense to all women, recognizing self-defense as part of a holistic
prevention plan, not the only solution; and a shout-out to Sanchez for raising
this issue with the Miss USA contest.
Until
women are no longer at risk of sexual assault, self-defense is a solution for
women to protect themselves and to make their way in the world.
Agrees
that men should stop raping women, but focuses on the necessity of providing
women with tools to protect themselves until that day comes of perpetrators
stopping rape. Argues that self-defense is not victim-blaming but a realistic
strategy in a world where sexual assault is still very much with us.
An
overview of how Sanchez responded to a question about the high rate of sexual
assault on college campuses, how she was attacked in the media, the role of
class, and why self-defense training is so important.
How media
ignores self-defense experts and the consequences for public knowledge and
awareness.
Compiled
by Martha Thompson, IMPACT Chicago June 7, 2014; updated November 18, 2014.
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