title: Thinking critically about campus-based self-defense programs: a response to Christine Gidycz.
abstract: Often labeled "ivory towers," colleges are fertile breeding grounds of male to female sexual assault and other types of woman abuse. Still, across the United States and elsewhere, many researchers, practitioners, and activists are involved in an ongoing and ever-changing struggle to curb female victimization in institutions of higher learning. The main objective of this article is to offer a few thoughts about some prevention issues raised by Christine Gidycz. Special attention is devoted to the dangers associated with new electronic technologies, including texting and Internet pornography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA walter.dekeseredy@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Walter S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: DeKeseredy
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D011902:Rape / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013334:Students; D014930:Women / Q000193:education*
keywords: pornography; self-defense; sexual assault; technology