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Sexual Harassment of Girls in Elementary School

2012, Journal of Interpersonal Violence

The aim of this study was to enhance the understanding of young girls’ experiences of peer sexual harassment in elementary school and of normalizing processes of school-related sexualized violence. Six focus group interviews with girls in Grade 1 through 6 were carried out in an elementary school in the northern part of Sweden. A content analyses showed that young girls experienced verbal, nonverbal, and sexual assault behaviors at school. Sexual harassment as a concealed phenomenon and manifest within a romantic discourse were themes found in the analysis. A conclusion is that schools have to acknowledge behaviors related to sexual harassment as a potential problem even in young ages and develop methods to approach the subject also for this age group.

Sexual harassment of girls in elementary school: a concealed phenomenon within a heterosexual romantic discourse Gadin KG. Journal of interpersonal violence 2012; 27(9):1762-1779 ARTICLE IDENTIFIERS DOI: 10.1177/0886260511430387 PMID: 22592498 PMCID: not available JOURNAL IDENTIFIERS LCCN: not available pISSN: 0886-2605 eISSN: 1552-6518 OCLC ID: 12879051 CONS ID: not available US National Library of Medicine ID: 8700910 This article was identified from a query of the SafetyLit database. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)