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Author Vera Gray, Fiona

Title Men's Intrusion, Women's Embodiment : a critical analysis of street harassment
Published New York : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (197 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Routledge research in gender and society.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Bringing back Beauvoir; The problem of naming; Counting the continuum; Men's stranger intrusion: a phenomenological framing; Chapter overview; A note on terminology and translations; 2 The importance of the ordinary; The continuum of men's intrusive practices; Towards a feminist phenomenology of violence against women and girls; Feminist phenomenological methodologies: principles; Feminist phenomenological methodologies: practice
Researching the ordinary: conversation and notebooksRepresenting the ordinary: poetic transcription; Sample characteristics; 3 The situated self; Situating Beauvoir; Situation, sex and gender; Our living body; Our bodily self; The habit body; 4 Living men's intrusion: part one; Ordinary interruptions; Verbal intrusions; 'We can see you': the gaze; 5 Living men's intrusion: part two; Physical intrusions; Flashing and masturbation; Following; 'When is it going to happen to me?': rape, the fortunate lack; 'It works together doesn't it?': connecting the continuum; 6 It's all part of growing up
Written in the body'It happens before you even know what it is': childhood intrusion; 'I didn't feel like I tried at all and I still got it': adolescent intrusion; 'I didn't walk home that way again': developing a habit body; 7 Embodying intrusion; 'It's never really made me augment the way I live': projected impact; 'The other forty-nine': projected frequency; The right amount of panic: external awareness; 'Don't be in your body, watch your body': external perspective; 'I'd never really thought of my body as me': bodily alienation; 8 Inhabiting ourselves; Policy and practice
Habits of resistanceHabits of restoration; Inhabiting ourselves; Afterword; Index
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Subject Sexual harassment of women.
Public safety.
Public spaces -- Social aspects
Public safety
Public spaces -- Social aspects
Sexual harassment of women
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317360117
1317360117