Men''s Intrusion, Women''s Embodiment - A Critical Analysis of Street Harassment

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.

List of contents

Foreword
1. Introduction
2. The Importance of the Ordinary
3. The Situated Self
4. Living Men’s Intrusion: Part One
5. Living Men's Intrusion: Part Two
6. It’s All Part of Growing Up
7. Embodying Intrusion
8. Inhabiting Ourselves
Afterword

About the author

F. Vera-Gray is a Research Fellow in the Law School at Durham University, UK, interested in drawing together feminist phenomenological conceptual approaches and empirical research on violence against women and girls.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona Vera-Gray, Fiona (Child and Women Abuse Studies Un Vera-Gray
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138360327
• ISBN: 978-1-138-36032-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sexual abuse & harassment, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Society and culture: general, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls