Lexington Books
Pages: 238
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66691-237-1 • Hardback • August 2022 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
978-1-66691-239-5 • Paperback • January 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
978-1-66691-238-8 • eBook • August 2022 • $37.50 • (£30.00)
Melinda A. Mills is associate professor of women’s and gender studies, sociology, and anthropology at Castleton University.
Chapter 1. Defining Street Harassment
Chapter 2. Recognizing the Web of Violence and Reckoning with Rape Culture
Chapter 3. Considering Controlling Images, Or Dangerous Ways of (Not) Seeing
Chapter 4. Discourses of Danger and Dangerous Discourses
Chapter 5. Between Speech and Silence, or “Dangerous Ways of (Not) Speaking”
Chapter 6. “Dangerous Ways of Looking”
In Street Harassment as Everyday Violence, Mills examines the nature of unwanted communication from men directed toward women in public places from a feminist perspective. The author relies on both personal experience and her research involving in-depth interviews with 20 women to inform her analysis. Chapters cover the definition of street harassment, the relationship of unwanted communication to violence and rape culture, the concept of danger as it relates to women’s experiences and responses, and response strategies. The writing style is clear enough to be easily read by those with some undergraduate preparation, and the text is adequately referenced and indexed. This volume would be a good addition to libraries serving anthropology, psychology, social work, sociology, and women’s studies departments that seek expanded holdings in these areas. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.
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