This is a digital resources accompaniment to our Street Harassment issue. If you have any ideas of things we should add, please contact us.
Further Reading – Books
♡ Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies by Linda Mcdowell
♡ 50 Stories about Stopping Street Harassers by Holly Kearl
♡ Stop Global Street Harassment: Growing Activism Around the World by Holly Kearl
♡ Passing By: Gender and Public Harassment by Carol Brooks Gardner
♡ The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder and Women by Elizabeth Wilson
♡ The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II by Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi
Further Reading – Journals
♡ Sujata Moorti “Introduction to Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television’s Public Spheres” The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2010): 437-443.
♡ Cynthia Grant Bowman “Street Harassment And The Informal Ghettoization Of Women.” Harvard Law Review 106.3 (1993): 517. – available here (free)
♡ Joanna Chiu “SLUT WALKS TURN TABLES” Herizons Summer 2011: 11,11,13. – available here (free)
♡ Anita Little “Hollaback Goes Global” Ms Summer 2010: 14. ProQuest.
♡ Lisa Rahman “HOLLABACK GIRLS!” Herizons Summer 2009: 8. – available here ($3 digital copy)
♡ Marcy Rein “Women Unite: Reclaim the Night” Off Our Backs Jun 30 1978: 8. ProQuest.
♡ Amaya Naomi Roberson “Homeland insecurity: The terror of street harassment” Off Our Backs Volume 33 Issue 7/8 (Jul/Aug 2003): 66. ProQuest.
♡ Judith R Walkowitz “Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London” Representations No. 62 (Spring, 1998): 1-30. JSTOR.
♡ Janet Wolff “The Invisible Flâneuse. Women and the Literature of Modernity” Theory Culture Society 2: 37 (1985). – available here (requires SAGE access)
♡ Jennifer Beever “Images of Women in American Popular Culture: The Post-World War II Legacy” (1983). Senior Scholar Papers. Paper 21. – available here (free)
♡ Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites “The Times Square Kiss: Iconic Photography and Civic Renewal in U.S. Public Culture” The Journal of American History , Vol. 94, No. 1 (Jun, 2007), 122-131. – available here (free)
♡ Sherrie A. Kossoudji and Laura J. Dresser “Working Class Rosies: Women Industrial Workers during World War II” The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jun, 1992), 431-446. – available here (free)
Further Reading – Articles
♡ When Street Harassment Is More Deadly Than Catcalls by Holly Kearl (via Ms Magazine)
♡ Takin’ it to the Streets: Creeps, Perverts, and Criminals by Mandy Van Deven (via Bitch Media)
♡ Takin’ It To The Streets: The Perfect Victim by Mandy Van Deven (via Bitch Media)
♡ Let’s Get those Sluts Walking by Laurie Penny (via New Statesman)
♡ Making cities safe for women and girls by Michelle Bachelet (via The Guardian)
♡ Feeling harassed? Do something about it by Holly Kearl (via The Guardian)
♡ SlutWalking gets rolling after cop’s loose talk about provocative clothing by Ed Pilkington (via The Guardian)
♡ Street Harassment: Is a Man Running Over a 14-Year Old Girl for Refusing Sex Serious Enough? by Soraya Chemaly (via Huffington Post)
♡ Nobody Catcalls The Woman In The Wheelchair by Kayla Whaley (via The Establishment)
♡ Street Harassment: Not Just a Cisgender Issue by Sam Dylan Finch (via Let’s Queer Things Up!)
♡ What Street Harassment Is Like For Me As A Trans Woman by Kat Callahan (via Jezebel)
♡ Queer Women and Street Harassment: A Complicated Issue by Laura S. Logan (via Gender & Society)
♡ Calling Out Race in Street Harassment by Awilda González (via the body is not an apology)
♡ The Mexico City women fighting catcallers with confetti guns by Dominique Sisley (via Dazed Digital)
♡ A New Report Reveals the Realities of Street Harassment by Sarah Mirk (via Bitch Media)
♡ Every Street Should be a Safe Street by Suzy X (via Bitch Media)
♡ Portugal has made street harassment a crime – why hasn’t the UK? by Laura Bates (via The Guardian)
♡ Brutalization of women is a constant in popular film by Carrie Rickey (via Variety)
♡ Documenting anti-fat street harassment by Dr Charlotte Cooper (via Obesity Timebomb)
♡ Why The Anti-Street Harassment Movement Needs to Involve More Women of Color by Hannah Hodson (via Autostraddle)
♡ Rhythms of Fear by Laura Maw (via Hazlitt.net)
♡ The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture” (via Crates and Ribbons)
♡ Interview with Greta Friedman by Patricia Redmond (via Veterans History Project)
Films
♡ Black Woman Walking Dir. Tracey Rose, 2007.
♡ Objectified Dir. Tiye Rose Hood, 2010.
♡ Walking Home Dir. Nuala Cabral.
♡ Fighting Street Harassers With Confetti Guns And Punk Rock
♡ War Zone Dir. Maggie Hadleigh-West, 1998 – watch it here.
♡ Damsel in Distress: Part 1 – Tropes vs Women in Video Games by Feminist Frequency
Campaigns
♡ Stop Street Harassment – a nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting and ending gender-based street harassment worldwide.
♡ Hollaback! – a movement to end harassment powered by a network of local activists around the world.
♡ Good Night Out – an independent campaign working with clubs, bars, pubs and venues around the UK and Ireland to end harassment on nights out.
Art
♡ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (stop telling women to smile) – website / tumblr
♡ Las Hijas de Violencia – art and music collective from Mexico City, who confront street harassment they face by turning on their harassers with confetti guns and music.
Music
♡ Street Harassment – a mix of street-harassment themed songs from us at AWOAS
♡ Cats Against Catcalling – a free compilation by Riot Grrrl Berlin
♡ Hey Baby by Chai Pet
♡ Aye Girl by Miss Eaves & P.Kilmure
Sexista punk from Las hijas de Violencia on Vimeo.
♡ Sexista Punk by Las hijas de Violencia
♡ Plastic Bag by Flora
Data
♡ Women Feel Less Safe Than Men in Many Developed Countries by Gallup (2012)
♡ In U.S., 37% Do Not Feel Safe Walking at Night Near Home by Gallup (2014)
♡ #SpookyStats: Here’s Why Street Harassment Is A Big Deal (Collective Action for Safe Spaces)