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The perception of sexual voyeurism and violence in Singapore evaluated through Facebook comments

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7844155
AutoresSarah Tan (0000-0001-8120-3253, Corning (United States), autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas59-73
Fecha de publicación2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2021.1979483
OpenAlexW3199279296
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas24

There is scant research about sexual violence and attitudes towards it in Singapore. This study seeks to understand if Singapore has a rape-supportive culture, by examining how sexual violence is conceptualized, including the rising phenomenon of technology-enabled sexual violence. Facebook comments in response to mainstream media reporting of a well-known case of sexual voyeurism in 2019 were analysed. The data suggest that gender role expectations create an environment in which sexual violence is enabled and male perpetrators are absolved, and in which women are blamed for failing to avoid victimization. Gendered expectations also shape normative understandings of sexual behaviours, though the digital elements of voyeurism complicate understandings of violence and harm, inviting conceptualization of violence that goes beyond the element of physical contact. Commentators who resisted gender norms and scripts discussed violence in terms of interference with one's autonomy. Generally though, the frames of reference discovered in this analysis drew heavily on state norms and narratives and it is the state that can play a critical role in shifting mindsets to combat sexual violence

Criminology · Harm · Mainstream · Normative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sexual violence · Sociology · Voyeurism · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology