20th century american culture
A01=Carol Brooks Gardner
american gender politics
Author_Carol Brooks Gardner
catcalls
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comfort
disability
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feminism
gender
gender norms
gender related public harassment
gender studies
gendered behavior
humiliation
indignity
legal action
midwestern men
midwestern women
participants
pinches
public civility
public encounters
public places
race
sex and gender
sexual harassment
sexuality
social contexts
social problem
social sciences
sociology
stalking
unwanted public attention
verbal slurs
vulnerability
wolf whistles
Product details
- ISBN 9780520202153
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Aug 1995
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Catcalls, wolf whistles, verbal slurs, pinches, stalking - virtually every woman has experienced some form of unwanted public attention by men. Off the street, in semi-public places such as restaurants and department stores, women often suffer the insult of being passed over by employees eager to serve men. How pervasive is this behavior? How dangerous can it be? And what, if anything, should be done about it? "Passing By", an illuminating, unsettling work, explores the important yet little-examined issue of gender-related public harassment. Based on extensive research - including in-depth interviews with nearly five-hundred midwestern women and men - it documents the many types of indignity visited on women in public places. As Carol Brooks Gardner demonstrates, these indignities cross all lines of age, class, and ethnicity and follow a typical pattern whereby a man or men take advantage of a woman's momentary or permanent vulnerability. Beyond describing the scope and variety of harassing behaviors, the book investigates the different ways women and men respond to and interpret them.
Gardner concludes, provocatively, that gender-based public harassment exerts a powerful control over women's feelings of comfort in the towns and communities where they live and work. Further, she defines it as a new category of social problem that shares much in common with sexual harassment and, in its more menacing form, requires legal remedy.
Carol Brooks Gardner is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis.
