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Right Amount of Panic : How Women Trade Freedom for Safety by Fiona Vera-Gray (2018, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBristol University Press

ISBN-101447342291

ISBN-139781447342298

eBay Product ID (ePID)25038604228

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

Publication NameRight Amount of Panic : How Women Trade Freedom for Safety

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUrban & Land Use Planning, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Violence in Society, Sexual Abuse & Harassment, Criminology

Publication Year2018

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArchitecture, Social Science

AuthorFiona Vera-Gray

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.8 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width7.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

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ReviewsWith 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 skillful in their everyday resistance to harassment and sexual violence...I recommend this book for anyone interested in gender, victimology, women's practices of safety work and experiences with sexual harassment and sexual violence., Recommended. . . Vera-Gray presents an accessible account of narratives showcasing the different forms of fear of sexual violence in the lives of women and girls. . . . Importantly for audiences new to the topic of sexual violence, Vera-Gray points to the role that habituation plays in the naturalization of sexual violence in our society and suggests that limiting our freedoms in exchange for ever elusive forms of safety is for naught.

Table Of ContentIntroduction; Women, fear, and crime; It's all part of growing up; The work of creating safety; The right amount of panic; Ordinary resistance.

SynopsisWith real-life accounts of women's experiences, and based on the author's original research, this book challenges the culture of victim-blaming and shows how much energy women put into avoiding sexual violence in public spaces., One thing the past year's public conversations about sexual assault have started to make clear is just how much energy women put into simply avoiding sexual violence. The work that goes into feeling safe tend to be largely unnoticed, even by the women doing it, let alone the wider world--yet women and girls are the first to be blamed when these measures fail to keep them safe. F. Vera-Gray argues here that we need to change how we talk about rape prevention and give out well-intended safety advice. Our current approach, she says, makes it harder for women and girls to speak out, and hides just how much work they are already doing to try to determine "the right amount of panic." Drawing on both real-life accounts of women's experiences and the author's original research on the impact of public sexual harassment, this book challenges victim-blaming and highlights the need to show women as capable, powerful, and skillful in their everyday resistance., Have you ever thought about how much energy women put into avoiding sexual violence in public spaces? With real-life accounts of women's experiences, and based on the author's original research, 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., 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., Have you ever considered how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence? The work that goes into feeling safe is largely unnoticed by the women doing it and by the wider world, yet women and girls are the first to be blamed the inevitable times when it fails. With real-life accounts of women's experiences-based on the author's original research-this book challenges the culture of victim-blaming by highlighting women's everyday resistance to harassment and sexual violence. Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberHQ1237