Street Harassment As Everyday Violence

Melinda A. Mills

doi:10.5771/9781666912388

Summary

In Street Harassment as Everyday Violence, Melinda A. Mills investigates women’s experiences with street harassment, recognizing this phenomenon as a form of everyday violence. The author follows feminist scholars to consider the ways that silence can potentially, if only partially, protect women from verbally assaultive men who harass women in public. This violence both reveals and conceals itself in the discourses of silence about and during street harassment. It maps onto and reflects the web of violence that proves persistent and difficult to dismantle. This work operates as an initial intervention, by way of recognition of street harassment as a problem that hides in plain sight.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1237-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1238-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 230
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
Defining Street Harassment No access Pages 19 - 46
Recognizing the Web of Violence and Reckoning with Rape Culture No access Pages 47 - 72
Considering Controlling Images, or “Dangerous Ways of (Not) Seeing” No access Pages 73 - 100
Discourses of Danger and Dangerous Discourses No access Pages 101 - 122
Between Speech and Silence, or “Dangerous Ways of (Not) Speaking” No access Pages 123 - 170
“Dangerous Ways of Looking” No access Pages 171 - 208
Conclusion No access Pages 209 - 212
References No access Pages 213 - 222
Index No access Pages 223 - 228
About the Author No access Pages 229 - 230