Empowerment Self-Defense

Associate Professor (Research) at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a Staff Psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Ohio University, where she studied under the apprenticeship of Dr. Christine A. Gidycz in the Laboratory for the Study and Prevention of Sexual Assault. In concert with collaborators, she has published three prior evaluations of sexual assault prevention programs for college women (Gidycz et al., 2006; Orchowski et al., 2008; Gidycz et al., 2015), as well as prevention approaches for college men (Orchowski et al., 2018; Gidycz et al., 2011), and has authored work on the implementation of sexual assault prevention programs for men (Gidycz et al., 2011), and the supervision of such work (Orchowski et al., 2011). As a Principal Investigator, she completed a NIAAA-funded research examining sexual assault prevention with college men, and is currently the Principal Investigator of two CDC-funded evaluations of sexual assault prevention, risk reduction, and bystander intervention programming among high school and middle school students, and a Department of Defense Funded evaluation of sexual assault prevention for men in the military. She has previously published Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance: Theory, Research and Practice with Elsevier, as well as Engaging Boys and Men in Sexual Assault Prevention: Theory, Research and Practice with American Psychological Association. Dr. Jocelyn Hollander is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. For the past 20 years, her research has focused on the effectiveness of empowerment self-defense training for preventing gender-based violence, as well as its potential to empower women and challenge inequalities. She is the author of articles on these topics in Gender & Society, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Revue des Sciences Sociales, Sociology Compass, Violence Against Women, Feminism & Psychology, as well as in the volume Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance, edited by Lindsay Orchowski and Christine Gidycz. In addition, Professor Hollander has taught empowerment self-defense for over 30 years, including at Stanford University and the University of Oregon.

• PART 1: Introduction – The Theory and Practice of Empowerment Self Defense1. Introduction to the Volume2. Defining Empowerment Self Defense: What it is and What it isn’t3. History of Empowerment Self-Defense as a Feminist Rape Prevention Approach4. Empowerment Self-Defense: Common Elements5. Empowerment Self-Defense as a Trauma Informed Approach to Healing6. What Does It Mean to Defend Yourself in a Space Where the Resistance of Women is Criminalized?7. Empowerment Self-Defense: A Global Effort for Change8. Empowerment Self-Defense as a Component of the Gender Justice Movement: Personal Perspectives from the FoundersPART 2: Researching Empowerment Self-Defense – How We Know it “Works”9. Positioning Empowerment Self-Defense as a Part of Rape Prevention Efforts10. It Works! Outcomes of Empowerment Self-Defense Programs11. Processes of Change in Empowerment Self-Defense12. Assessing the Impact of Empowerment Self-DefensePART 3: Empowerment Self-Defense for Targeted Population13. Indigenous Populations and the Implementation of Empowerment Self-Defense14. Empowerment Self-Defense for Individuals with Disabilities15. Empowerment Self-Defense for Vulnerable Populations16. Empowerment Self-Defense for Sexual and Gender Minority Populations17. Varying Approaches to Including Men in Empowerment Self-Defense ProgramsPART 4: Implementation and Dissemination of Empowerment Self-Defense18. Recommendations for Teaching Empowerment Self-Defense in the Classroom19. Future Directions: Charting a Path forward for Empowerment Self-Defense