WOMEN‘S CONFRONTATION TO SEXISM: UTILIZING THE CONFRONTING PREJUDICED RESPONSES MODEL AND THE THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED METHODS FOR PRACTICING CONFRONTATION

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2025-9-4

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Kaya, Sıla

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Sexism is a detrimental issue that permeates various areas of women‘s lives. One of the effective ways of combatting sexism is confrontation which has been shown to diminish future prejudiced behavior of perpetrators, increase well-being of the targets and help set new norms for a less prejudiced environment. Current thesis utilized the Confronting Prejudiced Responses (CPR) Model with five steps: determining that the witnessed response is prejudiced, assessing the urgency of confronting, feeling personal responsibility to confront, deciding how to respond and taking action. The CPR scale, developed in line with the recommendations of this model, was adapted to Turkish in the first study, which revealed three subfactors: Detection and Emergency, Cost, Responsibility and Action. Building on this framework the thesis developed a four-week intervention program in the second study using Theatre of the Oppressed methods, coined by Augusto Boal, which use interactive drama techniques to explore and challenge social oppression, to help women practice different responses to sexism. A total of 29 participants (Mage = 23.48, SD = 4.12) took part in the program. Using the adapted CPR Scale and the Self-Silencing to Sexism Scale (SSTS), participants‘ progresses were assessed. Wilcoxon signed-rank tests revealed significant increases for the CPR subfactors, indicating the effectiveness of the intervention in enhancing women‘s capability to confront sexism. Semi-structured interviews held with participants further supported these findings, highlighted the positive outcomes of the intervention and provided valuable suggestions for future implementations.

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Confrontation, Sexism, Theatre of the Oppressed, Intervention Program

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115573

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis