F. Vera-Gray
Men's Intrusion, Women's Embodiment: A critical analysis of street harassment
Vera-Gray, F.
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Abstract
Research on violence against women tends to focus on topics such as sexual assault and intimate partner violence, arguably to the detriment of investigating men’s violence and intrusion in women’s everyday lives. The reality and possibility of the routine intrusions women experience from men in public space – from unwanted comments, to flashing, following and frottage – are frequently unaddressed in research, as well as in theoretical and policy-based responses to violence against women. Often at their height during women’s adolescence, such practices are commonly dismissed as trivial, relatively harmless expressions of free speech too subjective to be legislated against. Based on original empirical research, this book is the first of its kind to conduct a feminist phenomenological analysis of the experience for women of men’s stranger intrusions in public spaces. It suggests that intrusion from unknown men is a fundamental factor in how women understand and enact their embodied selfhood. This book is essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of violence against women, feminist philosophy, applied sociology, feminist criminology and gender studies.
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Vera-Gray, F. (2016). Men's Intrusion, Women's Embodiment: A critical analysis of street harassment. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668109
Book Type | Authored Book |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 26, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 6, 2016 |
Publication Date | Jul 6, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Apr 26, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 6, 2018 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Series Title | Routledge research in gender and society |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668109 |
Publisher URL | http://www.routledge.com/9781138951594 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Men's Intrusion, Women's Embodiment: A critical analysis of street harassment on 06/07/2016, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138951594
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