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Sexual assault on college campuses is a pervasive public health issue. It is important to examine factors particular to universities that influence occurrences of sexual assault and people's perceptions of sexual assault. Using a lens of socialist feminism, we argue that institutional and sociocultural factors related to gender and class privilege on college campuses are due to patterns of power and control in university systems that contribute to the occurrence and facilitation of sexual assault. Our synthesis of the literature focuses on the male-dominated party culture of the primarily White Greek system in American universities, which is reinforced by the university as an institution. We discuss how patterns of power and control dictate and influence contemporary campus norms in relation to gender and class, which then perpetuate sexual assault. We provide recommendations for policies and procedures regarding class and gender inequities in the scope of sexual violence on college campuses.

Using data from 179 undergraduate men from 38 higher education institutions, we examined if adherence to masculine norms and social dominance hazing endorsement changed over three years of membership in a historically white college social fraternity. In addition, we examined if changes in conformity to specific masculine norms affected their social dominance hazing endorsement. We found no significant differences in social dominance hazing endorsement or conformity to seven masculine norms from 2017 to 2020, though conformity to power over women and heterosexual presentation were statistically significantly lower in 2020 than 2017. Increased conformity to power over women and risk-taking was associated with social dominance hazing endorsement. Findings indicate that membership in a historically white college social fraternity have limited effects on men’s conformity to masculine norms and social dominance hazing motivations. We identified implications for fraternity recruitment practices and interventions, and encourage collaboration with middle and high school stakeholders to address the precollege gender socialization of adolescent boys.

Fraternal organizations have often received criticism from individuals who argue that these groups perpetuate harmful gendered norms and oppress members who identify with queer communities. However, scholars and practitioners alike have paid little attention to members who identify as bisexual/pansexual (bi/pan) within these organizations. This narrative inquiry study examined the stories of eight pan/bi fraternity members, exploring how they described their performance of gender and sexual identities within these organizational contexts. Findings brought to light the following: how the heterosexist, monosexist settings influenced their varied performances; how members described the impact of their performances on experiences and relationships; and how participants viewed the complexities of performances and queered discourses of authenticity. Implications for research and practice are offered.

The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi takes us inside the secret, amusing, and sometimes mundane world of a California fraternity around 1900. Gleaning history from recent archaeological excavations and from such intriguing sources as oral histories, architecture, and photographs, Laurie A. Wilkie uncovers details of everyday life in the first fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, and sets this story into the rich social and historical context of West Coast America at the turn of the last century. In particular, Wilkie examines men's coming-of-age experiences in a period when gender roles and relations were undergoing dramatic changes. Her innovative study illuminates shifting notions of masculinity and at the same time reveals new insights about the inner workings of fraternal orders and their role in American society.

Scholars have identified that openness to diversity is a vital student outcome for higher education. Interest in this outcome has only intensified in recent years because of increased attention to, and unrest related to, social injustices. Using longitudinal data from 3420 undergraduate members of historically white college men’s social fraternities located at 134 higher education institutions in the United States, this study examined factors that influenced the development of openness to diversity and change (ODC) amongst fraternity members from the 2019–2020 to 2020–2021 academic years. Our findings revealed that individual and institutional-level political and social involvement, and individual and institutional-level conceptualizations of fraternal brotherhood (e.g., brotherhood based on belonging) were associated with ODC during the 2020–2021 academic year. Though historically white college men’s fraternities have often perpetuated exclusionary environments both in historical and contemporary times, the study results suggest that political and social involvement and participation in fraternities that emphasize belonging and accountability may contribute to college men’s ODC. We urge scholars and practitioners to have more nuanced understandings of fraternities, while simultaneously challenging fraternities to put their values into actions and to deconstruct the legacies of exclusion that exist within these organizations.

Female Bonding has become a central issue in women’s fiction. Today, therefore, androgyny is no longer the feminist goal.Sisterhood enables them to discover themselves ass persons and nurtures their ties with their community.Anita Diamant’s major concern in her fictions is to depict the frigility of love and female friendship, the anguish as well as conflicts arising out of agonizing cruelty of temptation, and identity crisis conflicts of women characters.The novel chosen for discussion is Good Harbor by Anita Diamant. The novel reflects her experience as a wife, mother of a 16 year old daughter and a Jewish woman with deep connections to her synagogue and Rabbi.Female bonding is characterized by emotion of affection and trust. Only Kathleen and Joyce can understand the miseries of their lives. They are able to react to their problems and bond with each other very well. The paper analyses how the major characters traverses starting from identity crisis and how they harbor their relationships and assert it through sisterhood.

At a Feb. 16 misconduct hearing Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis’s father John Floyd denied ever meeting prosecutor Nathan Wade before 2021.

Willingness to lay down one’s life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social psychology, we develop a mathematical model showing how conditioning cooperation on previous shared experience can allow individually costly pro-group behavior to evolve. The model generates a series of predictions that we then test empirically in a range of special sample populations (including military veterans, college fraternity/sorority members, football fans, martial arts practitioners, and twins). Our empirical results show that sharing painful experiences produces “identity fusion” – a visceral sense of oneness – which in turn can motivate self-sacrifice, including willingness to fight and die for the group. Practically, our account of how shared dysphoric experiences produce identity fusion helps us better understand such pressing social issues as suicide terrorism, holy wars, sectarian violence, gang-related violence, and other forms of intergroup conflict.

National movements, including Black Lives Matter and Abolish Greek Life, have resurfaced attention to racial dynamics within sorority and fraternity life (SFL) communities. Often, these discussions frame SFL as a homogenous entity and ignore crucial distinctions among organizations, such as the fact that historically white sororities and fraternities were not originally created to serve Students of Color, while culturally based sororities and fraternities were intentionally created to center and celebrate People of Color. Furthermore, some historically white sororities and fraternities have been more intentional than others in implementing race-conscious initiatives and addressing their exclusionary roots. However, research has yet to explore ways (inter)national sorority and fraternity leadership across organizational types attend to matters of race and racism in organizational messaging. This qualitative critical discourse analysis explored these dynamics, examining social media messaging on topics connected to race/ethnicity by (inter)national SFL organizations. Using data drawn from 37 culturally based and historically white sororities and fraternities over a four-year span, this study examined racial messaging using critical race theory.

Abstract The interdisciplinary analysis of inquisitorial trials allows us to recover narratives and expressions of sisterhood that have been obscured or overlooked due to the influence of a mindset moulded by patriarchal assumptions. Keywords Sorority; Emotions; Jewish Converts Women; Inquisition; Aragon. 1. El género es un sistema con categoría social que opera en tres niveles: individual, interpersonal y estructural, donde las personas atraviesan distintas experiencias de socialización desde la infancia, de modo que masculinidad y feminidad incorporan el componente biológico, sociocultural y psicológico37. Frente a la ética de la justicia46, que impulsa comúnmente a los varones - más individualista, formal, reglada y abstracta-, la ética del cuidado se sitúa próxima a los principios morales que defenden las mujeres, caracterizada por ser contextual, responsable frente al prójimo, tener una concepción más global en su preocupación por las relaciones interpersonales y no cumplir meramente la norma y el código moral como precepto47.