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Also by Holly Kearl:

Stop Street Harassment, August 2010
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Stop Street Harassment
Holly Kearl

Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women

Praeger Publishers
August 2010
On Sale: August 3, 2010
236 pages
ISBN: 0313384967
EAN: 9780313384967
Kindle: B003ZHTSNU
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Non-Fiction

Street harassment is generally dismissed as harmless, but in reality, it causes women to feel unsafe in public, at least sometimes. To achieve true gender equality, it must come to an end. Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women draws on academic studies, informal surveys, news articles, and interviews with activists to explore the practice's definition and prevalence, the societal contexts in which it occurs, and the role of factors such as race and sexual orientation. Perhaps more crucially, the book makes clear how women experience street harassment—how they feel about and respond to it—and the ways it negatively impacts lives.

But understanding is only a beginning. In the second half of the book, readers will find concrete strategies for dealing with street harassers and ways to become involved in working to end this all-too-common violation. Educators, counselors, parents, and other concerned individuals will discover resources for teaching about harassment and modeling behavior that will help prevent harassment incidents.

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