Everyday Stranger Harassment and Women’s Objectification

By Kimberly Fairchild, Laurie A. Rudman. 2008

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Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery (2010, background): “…that self-objectification, and the concomitant self-surveillance, exact significant costs on women’s subjective well-being (Breines et al. 2008; Fairchild and Rudman 2008) and cognitive performance (Fredrickson et al. 1998; Quinn et al. 2006b), with a greater prevalence of selfharming…”
Men's stranger intrusions: Rethinking street harassment (2016, background): “…women experience in their everyday lives, suggesting that women’s higher fear of victimisation may stem from their daily experiences of ‘minor victimisations’, a term suggesting reliance on a hierarchy of harm (Fairchild & Rudman, 2008; Harris & Miller, 2000; MacMillan, Nierobisz, & Welsh, 2000).”
“It Happens All the Time”: Women’s Experiences and Normalization of Sexual Harassment in Public Space (2018, background): “…on sexual harassment focus on harassment in the workplace, even though there are similarities in the activities and the consequences of sexual harassment occurring in a work context and in a public context (e.g., street harassment; Fairchild & Rudman, 2008; Lenton, Smith, Fox, & Morra, 1999).”
When What You See Is What You Get (2011, background): “Of the studies that have examined sexual objectification in social interactions, most have been correlational (Calogero, Herbozo, & Thompson, 2009; Fairchild & Rudman, 2008; Huebner & Fredrickson, 1999; Kozee, Tylka, Augustus-Horvath, & Denchik, 2007; Moradi, Dirks, & Matteson, 2005; cf. Tiggemann…”
Justice 2.0: Street harassment victims’ use of social media and online activism as sites of informal justice (2016, background): “2000; Johnson and Bennett 2015); impede upon women’s ability to freely access and utilize public spaces (Laniya 2005; Fairchild and Rudman 2008; Dhillon and Bakaya 2014); generate negative emotional and affective states, such as feeling scared, frightened, distressed, angry, violated, and so forth…”
Sexual Objectification Increases Rape Victim Blame and Decreases Perceived Suffering (2013, background): “In the related domain of stranger harassment (sexual harassment of women in public places by men who are strangers), Fairchild and Rudman (2008) have shown that women’s coping strategies were significantly related to self-objectification.”
Street Harassment (2014, background): “Fairchild and Rudman (2008) have noted that street harassment shares many common themes with the sexual harassment that happens in other contexts, most specifically the component of unwanted sexual attention.”
Context Effects on Women’s Perceptions of Stranger Harassment (2010, background): “A more thorough understanding of the experiences and mental processes of women during stranger harassment situations can ultimately lead to programs for reducing its ill effects such as increased self-objectification and fear of rape (Fairchild and Rudman 2008).”