TY - JOUR
T1 - Gendered and Sexualized Bullying and Cyber Bullying
T2 - Spotlighting Girls and Making Boys Invisible
AU - Mishna, Faye
AU - Schwan, Kaitlin J.
AU - Birze, Arija
AU - Van Wert, Melissa
AU - Lacombe-Duncan, Ashley
AU - McInroy, Lauren
AU - Attar-Schwartz, Shalhevet
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - Drawing on semistructured interviews with Canadian Grade 4 to 12 students, this article uses a feminist lens to explore gendered and sexualized bullying and cyberbullying among children and youth. Our findings indicate that while boys’ roles and behaviors were frequently made invisible, girls were typically spotlighted, blamed, and criticized. Girls’ experiences were often minimized and normalized by peers and linked to gender norms and stereotypes that were largely invisible to participants. The central theme of invisibility emerged, which encompassed and interconnected the three subthemes: (a) gendered stereotyping, (b) spotlighting girls, and (c) gender surveillance and policing. Gendered and sexualized bullying and cyberbullying were found to be part of a socialization process wherein girls come to expect gender-based aggression, violence, and inequality in their lives. This article makes explicit how bullying and cyberbullying are linked to societal norms that put girls at risk of harassment, violence, abuse, and discrimination.
AB - Drawing on semistructured interviews with Canadian Grade 4 to 12 students, this article uses a feminist lens to explore gendered and sexualized bullying and cyberbullying among children and youth. Our findings indicate that while boys’ roles and behaviors were frequently made invisible, girls were typically spotlighted, blamed, and criticized. Girls’ experiences were often minimized and normalized by peers and linked to gender norms and stereotypes that were largely invisible to participants. The central theme of invisibility emerged, which encompassed and interconnected the three subthemes: (a) gendered stereotyping, (b) spotlighting girls, and (c) gender surveillance and policing. Gendered and sexualized bullying and cyberbullying were found to be part of a socialization process wherein girls come to expect gender-based aggression, violence, and inequality in their lives. This article makes explicit how bullying and cyberbullying are linked to societal norms that put girls at risk of harassment, violence, abuse, and discrimination.
KW - bullying
KW - children
KW - cyberbullying
KW - gendered
KW - sexualized
KW - youth
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042207476&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0044118X18757150
DO - 10.1177/0044118X18757150
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AN - SCOPUS:85042207476
SN - 0044-118X
VL - 52
SP - 403
EP - 426
JO - Youth and Society
JF - Youth and Society
IS - 3
ER -