Eller Amanda
a Department of Anthropology , George Washington University , New York , USA.
Cult Health Sex. 2016 Jul;18(7):742-55. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2015.1123295. Epub 2016 Jan 25.
This paper adds to discussion of transactional sex relationships in Africa by examining the distinction between transactional sex and sexual harassment in the context of professor-student relationships and their inherent power dynamics. By exploring the ways in which female university students in urban Benin toe the line between empowered agent and victim, I show how the power differential between professor and student obstructs the professor's ability to objectively determine consent, and examine why, in spite of this differential, male professors are frequently perceived as the victims of these relationships. Ethnographic data were gathered through participant observation on a public university campus in Benin and in-depth interviews and focus groups with 34 students and 5 professors from that university. Findings suggest that the problem of sexual harassment on campus will be difficult to address so long as transactional sex relationships between professors and students are permitted to continue.
本文通过研究师生关系背景下交易性行为与性骚扰之间的区别及其内在权力动态，进一步探讨了非洲的交易性行为关系。通过探究贝宁城市女大学生如何在赋权主体与受害者之间保持平衡，我揭示了师生之间的权力差异如何阻碍教授客观判定同意的能力，并探讨了为何尽管存在这种差异，男教授却常被视为这些关系中的受害者。通过参与观察贝宁一所公立大学校园，并对该校34名学生和5名教授进行深入访谈及焦点小组讨论，收集了民族志数据。研究结果表明，只要师生之间的交易性行为关系继续存在，校园性骚扰问题就难以解决。
