Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
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Date of Graduation
Spring 2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Department
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Advisor(s)
Matthew B. Ezzell
Beth Eck
Rebecca Howes-Mischel
Abstract
This paper is exploratory research into how college-age women understand their experiences of street harassment. Street harassment is a normative experience for women living in patriarchal cultures, and is an intrusive experience faced regularly in public life. Women told their experiences as part of a narrative that changed over time as they aged from teens into college. Their experiences were not confined to the street, but experienced across public life, and women often carry the weight of harassment in silence. Women resign to the ongoing reality of harassment, and their experiences did not exist in a vacuum but a larger mosaic of gendered violence at the hands of men.
Recommended Citation
Davis, Madison, "What street harassment means" (2017). Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019. 262.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/honors201019/262
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