ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores how sexual misconduct is experienced by different groups or communities of women. It explores how systems of inequality and oppression such as sexism, colonialism, racism and classism can interlock and intersect to allow space for sexual misconduct. The book then focuses on staff to staff and at times student to staff sexual misconduct, and examines how structural inequalities in university spaces increase the risks of harm and abuse for those working in precarious positions. It also focuses on trust-based sexual violence in her autoethnographic reflection of an ethnography and argues that sexual misconduct is a methodological issue. The book explores how sexual misconduct ‘is composed of power relations in which multiple axes of differentiation are in play’.
