@article{1562885,
      recid = {1562885},
      author = {Katz, Jackson.},
      title = {The bystander moment transforming rape culture at its  roots / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 minutes):},
      abstract = {The MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the  pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created  unprecedented demand for gender violence prevention models  that actually work. The Bystander Moment tells the story of  one of the most prominent and proven of these models - the  innovative bystander approach developed by pioneering  scholar and activist Jackson Katz and his colleagues at  Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in  Society in the 1990s. Drawing on examples from news and  entertainment media throughout, Katz introduces the basic  ideas and pedagogical practices that inform the bystander  approach, which has now been implemented across the  professional and college sports culture, in all branches of  the US military, and in a growing number of corporate and  other institutional settings. He gives special focus to how  the bystander approach targets peer culture dynamics -  especially male peer culture dynamics - that help to  normalize abusive behaviors toward woman and girls while  silencing other men in the face of these patterns of abuse.  And he shows how these deeply gendered dynamics are at the  same time deeply inflected by intersectional factors like  race, ethnicity, and class. In the end, Katz also stresses  the crucial importance of appealing to people not as  potential perpetrators or passive spectators, but as active  bystanders and potential leaders who have a positive role  to play in challenging and changing the sexist cultural  norms that too often lead to gender violence. The Bystander  Moment is the first video of its kind to clearly lay out  the basic principles and practices that inform this unique  approach to bystander education, and to clarify how it  differs in fundamental ways from other "bystander  intervention" models that downplay the role that gender  norms, especially our cultural ideas about manhood, play in  reinforcing attitudes that can lead to gender violence. The  result is an indispensable educational tool in the ongoing  struggle to prevent gender violence and promote gender  equality, and a powerful resource for those working to  prevent discrimination, abuse, and violence against LGBTQ  people and bullying in all of its forms, as well as in the  fields of suicide prevention and alcohol abuse education.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1562885},
}