Vera-Gray The Right Amount of Panic

How Women Trade Freedom for Safety
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4231-1
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence? The work that goes into feeling safe goes largely unnoticed by the women doing it and by the wider world, and yet women and girls are the first to be blamed the inevitable times when it fails.

We need to change the story on rape prevention and ‘well-meaning’ safety advice, because this makes it harder for women and girls to speak out, and hides the amount of work they are already doing trying to decipher ‘the right amount of panic’. With real-life accounts of women’s experiences, and based on the author’s original research on the impact of sexual harassment in public, this book challenges victim-blaming and highlights the need to show women as capable, powerful and skilful in their everyday resistance to harassment and sexual violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vera-Gray, Fiona

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction;

Women, fear, and crime;

It’s all part of growing up;

The work of creating safety;

The right amount of panic;

Ordinary resistance.

Über Autor(innen)

Vera-Gray, Fiona
Fiona Vera-Gray is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Law at Durham University working on violence against women and girls. She has over a decade’s worth of frontline experience in the sexual violence support movement and is a well-regarded expert in sexual violence prevention with young people. She has written widely on the topics of sexual violence, sexual harassment, and women’s safety work.