Harassment and the Privilege of Unknowing

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ID3893902
AuthorsJennifer Doyle (0000-0002-8828-7725, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume30
Issue1
Pages157-188
Publication date2019-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
Venuedifferences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1040-7391 • E-ISSN: 1527-1986
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/10407391-7481330
OpenAlexW2946233903
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited31

In 2014, Amanda Thomashow filed a complaint against Larry Nassar at Michigan State University. In its report describing the ensuing investigation, the university cleared Nassar of wrongdoing. A few years later, Nassar was sent to prison for abusing hundreds of girls and women. This essay takes a close look at the report describing that investigation’s finding. Drawing from Miranda Fricker’s work on epistemic injustice, this essay considers the sexual politics of knowing and unknowing within the context of a Title IX investigation set against the backdrop of a university’s attempt to overhaul not only its policies but its sexual culture

Clearance · Complaint · Criminology · Harassment · Indignation · Injustice · Political science · Politics · Prison · Sociology · Wrongdoing · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology

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