Louise Vincent

Contrapower harassment should factor into discussions on sexual violence on campuses, and be taken seriously as a form of violence towards lecturers.

This area of study fosters understanding across barriers of race, class, gender or ethnicity, argues Louise Vincent.

Women's bodies have long been singled out for scapegoating in times of social unease. Single mothers, pregnant teenagers, welfare mothers and sexually expressive women have all, at different times, been marked as the source of moral decline, disease and disorder. But why should the miniskirted woman be a magnet for mob violence?