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A collection of books, articles, media & research about street harassment or related issues!

Books

• Zeilinger, Irene. Non C’est Non. Garance ASBL. Livre Sur L’internet!
• Kearl, Holly. Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers, 2010.
• Comstock, Gary. Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
• Gardner, Carol Brooks. Passing By: Gender and Public Harassment. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
• Girls for Gender Equity (GGE), Joanne Smith, Meghan Huppuch & Mandy Van Deven. Hey Shorty! A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets. New York: Feminist Press, 2011.
• Khazzoom, Loowa. Consequence: Beyond Resisting Rape (2002)
• Langelan, Martha. Back Off: How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassment and Harassers (New York: Fireside, 1993).
• Madriz, Esther. Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women’s Lives. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.
• Miller, Jody. Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence. New York City: New York University Press, 2008.
• Nielsen, Laura Beth. License to Harass: Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
• Phadke, Shilpa and Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade. Why Loiter?: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets.Penguin Books India, 2011.
• Spain, Daphne. Gendered Spaces. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
• Stanley, Liz and Sue Wise. Georgie Porgie: Sexual Harassment in Everyday Life. London: Pandora Press, 1987.
• Wilson, Elizabeth. The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.

Articles

• “Who’s Having Fun?” Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan, and Shilpa Ranade. From The Penguin Book of New Writing From India.
• “The Man in the Street: Why He Harasses” Benard, Cheryl and Edith Schlaffer. In Feminist Frameworks, edited by Allison M. Jaggar and Paula S. Rothenberg. New York: McGraw Hill, 1984.
• Ayres, Melanie, Carly K Friedman and Campbell Leaper. “Individual and Situational Factors Related to Young Women’s Likelihood of Confronting Sexism in Their Everyday Lives.” Sex Roles 61 (7-8): 449-460.
• Benard, Cheryl and Edith Schlaffer. “The Man in the Street: Why He Harasses.” In Feminist Frameworks, edited by Allison M. Jaggar and Paula S. Rothenberg. New York: McGraw Hill, 1984.
• Bowman, Cynthia Grant. “Street Harassment and the Informal Ghettoization of Women,” Harvard Law Review 106, no 3 (January 1993): 517-580.
• Brownmiller, Susan. “Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.” In Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present, edited by Mariam Schneir. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
• Buchwald, Emilie. “Raising Girls for the 21st Century.” In Transforming a Rape Culture, edited by Emilie Buchwald, Pamela R. Fletcher, and Martha Roth. Minneapolis, MN: Milkwood Editions, 1993.
• Chaudoir, Stephenie and Diane M. Quinn. “Bystander Sexism in the Intergroup Context: The Impact of Cat-calls on Women’s Reactions Towards Men.” Sex Roles (2010) 62: 623-634.
• Chynoweth, Sarah K. and Erin M. Patrick, “Sexual violence during firewood collection: income-generation as protection in displaced settings.” In Gender-Based Violence, edited by Gerladine Terry and Joanna Hoare. Oxfam Great Britain, 2007.
• Cohen, Patricia Cline. “Safety and Danger: Women on American Public Transport, 1750-1850.” In Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women’s History, edited by Dorothy O. Helly and Susan M. Reverby. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.
• Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Race, Gender, and Sexual Harassment.” Southern California Law Review 65 (1991-1992): 1467-76.
• Davis, Deirdre. “The Harm that Has No Name: Street Harassment, Embodiment, and African American Women.” InGender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism, edited by Constance L. Mui and Julien S. Murphy. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002: 214-225.
• Drucker, Susan and Gary Gumpert. “Shopping Women, and Public Space.” In Voices in the Street: Explorations in Gender, Media, and Public Space. Eds Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert. New Jersey: Hampton Press, Inc: 1996.
• Duneier, Mitchell. “Talking to Women.” In Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.
• Fairchild, Kimberly and Laurie A. Rudman. (2008). “Everyday Stranger Harassment and Women’s Self-Objectification.” Social Justice Research, 21 (3): 338-357.
• Fayer, Joan. “Changes in Gender Use of Public Space in Puerto Rico.” In Voices in the Street: Explorations in Gender, Media, and Public Space. Eds Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert. New Jersey: Hampton Press, Inc: 1996.
• Fogg-Davis, Hawley. “Theorizing Black Lesbians within Black Feminism: A Critique of Same-Race Street Harassment. Politics & Gender, 2 (2006): 57-76.
• Golden, Stephanie. “Lady Versus Low Creature: Old Roots of Current Attitudes Toward Homeless Women.” InWomen: A Feminist Perspective, Fifth Edition, edited by Jo Freeman. Ohio: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995.
• Guano, Emanuela. “Respectable Ladies and Uncouth Men: The Performative Politics of Class and Gender in the Public Realm of an Italian City.” Journal of American Folklore 120 (475): 48-72.
• Heben, Tiffanie. “Reshaping of the Law: Interpreting and Remedying Street Harassment.” South California’sReview of Law and Women’s Studies 4, no. 1 (1994): 183– 219.
• Hitlan, Robert, Kimberly Schneider, & Benjamin Walsh. “Upsetting Behavior: Reactions to Personal and Bystander Sexual Harassment Experiences.” Sex Roles (2006) 55: 187-195.
• Hyers, Lauri. “Resisting Prejudice Every Day: Exploring Women’s Assertive Responses to Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, and Sexism.” Sex Roles (2007) 56: 1-12.
• Ilahi, Nadia. “Gendered Contestations: An Analysis of Street Harassment in Cairo and its Implications for Access to Public Spaces.” Surfacing 2 (1): 56-69. (May 2009).
• Kelly, Janice and Eric Wesselmann. “Cat-Calls and Culpability: Investigating the Frequency and Functions of Stranter Harassment.” Sex Roles (2010) 63: 451-462.
• Kissling, Elizabeth Arveda. “Street harassment: the language of sexual terrorism.” Discourse & Society 2 no. 4 (1991): 451-460.
• Koskela, Hille. “‘Bold walk and breakings’: Women’s spatial confidence versus fear of violence.” Gender, Place and Culture, 4 no. 3 (1997): 301–320.
• Laniya, Olatokunbo Olukemi. “Street Smut: Gender, Media, and the Legal Power Dynamics of Street Harassment, or ‘Hey Sexy’ and Other Verbal Ejaculations.” Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 14 (2005): 91-130.
• di Leonardo, Micaela. “Political Economy of Street Harassment.” Aegis (Summer 1981): 51-57.
• MacKinnon, Catherine. “The Social Causes of Sexual Harassment.” In Sexual Harassment: Confrontation and Decision, edited by Edmund Wall. Buffalo New York: Prometheus Books, 1992.
• Macmillan, Ross, Annette Nierobisz and Sandy Welsh. “Experiencing the Streets: Harassment and Perceptions of Safety Among Women.”Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 37, no. 3 (August 2000): 306-322.
• Parker, Jaclyn. “Sex Differences in the Perception of Street Harassment.” A Guide to Dynamics of Feminist Theory. Ed. Doris Howard. New York: Haworth P, 1987.
• Parsons, Clare Olivia. “Reputation and Public Appearance: The De-Eroticization of the Urban Street.” In Voices in the Street: Explorations in Gender, Media, and Public Space. Eds Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert. New Jersey: Hampton Press, Inc: 1996.
• Popkin, Susan, Tama Leventhal, & Gretchen Weismann. (2010) “Girls in the ’Hood: How Safety Affects the Life Chances of Low-Income Girls.” Urban Affairs Review 45 (6): 715-744.
• Roberson, Amaya N. “Anti-Street Harassment.” Off Our Backs. May-June 2005.
• Saltzberg, Elayne A. and Joan C. Chrisler. “Beauty Is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body.” In Women: A Feminist Perspective, Fifth Edition, edited by Jo Freeman. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995.
• Sanday, Peggy Reeves. “The Socio-Cultural Context of Rape: A Cross-Cultural Study.” In Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault, edited by Mary E. Odem and Jody Clay-Warner. Lanham, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,1998.
• Schulz, Dorothy and Susan Gilbert, “Women and Transit Security: A New Look at an Old Issue,” U.S. Department of Transportation.
• Sheffield, Carole J. “Sexual Terrorism.” In Women: A Feminist Perspective, Fifth Edition, edited by Jo Freeman. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995.
• Thompson, Deborah. “‘The Woman in the Street:’ Reclaiming the Public Space from Sexual Harassment.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 6 (1994): 313 – 348.
• Tuerkheimer, Deborah. (1997) “Street Harassment as Sexual Subordination: The Phenomenology of Gender-Specific Harm.” Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal 12.
• Walkowitz, Judith R. “Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London.”Representations 62 (Spring 1998): 1-30.
• Warr, Mark. “Fear of Rape among Urban Women.” Social Problems, 32, no. 3 (Feb. 1985): 238-250.
• West, Robin L. “The Difference in Women’s Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory.” Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal 3 (1987): 81-145.