Men's Intrusion, Women's Embodiment: A critical analysis of street harassment
By F. Vera-Gray. 2016
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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.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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- Men's stranger intrusions: Rethinking street harassment (2016, methodology): “My own empirical work (Vera-Gray, 2017) found that the street was not the most frequent arena for men to practice intrusion, and women’s emotional responses ranged through complimented, insulted, harassed, intimidated, confused, annoyed and terrified – often moving across these states within the…”
- ‘It’s Torture for the Soul’: The Harms of Image-Based Sexual Abuse (2020, unknown): “It aligns with the idea of how experiencing some forms of abuse, in the context in which we live, can constrain one’s ‘horizons of possibility’ (Vera-Gray, 2017b) by serving to limit what seems viable in a world where a pervasive sense of existential threat may also exist.”