@article{ref1,
title="Changing the hidden curriculum of campus rape prevention and education: women's self-defense as a key protective factor for a public health model of prevention",
journal="Trauma, violence, and abuse",
year="2015",
author="McCaughey, Martha and Cermele, Jill",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Recent activist, policy, and government efforts to engage in campus rape prevention education (RPE), culminating in the 2014 White House Task Force recommendations to combat campus sexual assault, prompt a need to examine the concept of &quot;prevention&quot; in the context of sexual assault on U.S. college campuses and their surrounding community service agencies. This article reviews previous research on effective resistance to sexual assault, showing that self-defense is a well-established protective factor in a public health model of sexual assault prevention. The article goes on to show, through an examination of campus rape prevention efforts framed as &quot;primary prevention,&quot; that self-defense is routinely excluded. This creates a hidden curriculum that preserves a gender status quo even while it strives for change. The article concludes with recommendations for how administrators, educators, facilitators, funding agencies, and others can incorporate self-defense into campus RPE for a more effective, data-driven set of sexual assault prevention efforts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1524-8380",
doi="10.1177/1524838015611674",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524838015611674"
}