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["Juliette Grimmett" <>]

Call for Submissions: Resisting Street Harassment (working title).
Edited by Mariame Kaba and Michelle VanNatta

Over the past fifteen years, street harassment of women and girls has
become recognized as a social problem and as a form of gendered
violence.  Across the world, groups of women and men, young and old
insert comma here have organized collective responses to street
harassment.  The literature about gendered violence often focuses on
individual victimization, excluding examples of collective resistance.

This anthology will feature essays that describe organized and
collective efforts to resist street harassment.  We welcome writings
from youth and adults, women and men.  We are particularly interested
in
concrete strategies that you have used in your efforts.  This book
aims
to provide practical resources to others who would take on similar
efforts.  We invite contributors to include examples of the materials
and tools used in campaigns (these can include posters, flyers,
curricula, brochures, manifestos, etc...).

Some of the questions that contributions should address include:

1.      What led your group to organize against street harassment?
2.      What do you see as the root causes of street harassment?
3.      What challenges have you experienced in your work?
4.      What successes have you had?
5.      What have been the most effective strategies that you have
used?
6.      How do you address the gendered nature of street harassment?

Manuscripts should be no longer than 30 double-spaced pages including
tables, notes, graphs, and references.  There is no minimum length,
but
be sure that your submission has enough detail to provide readers with
a
clear picture of your work. Please avoid academic language and jargon.
Our goal in this book is to provide concrete and accessible examples
of
the efforts being launched across the world to address street
harassment.

This book will be co-edited by Mariame Kaba and Michelle VanNatta.
Mariame has a long history in the anti-violence against women's
movement
having worked in domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers.
She is also an adult ally for a youth-led group called the Rogers Park
Young Women's Action Team that has taken on the issue of street
harassment since 2003. Michelle is the Director of Criminology at
Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.  She is active with
Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers.  Her areas of
research,
community work, and teaching include the criminal legal system's
targeting of women, violence against women by the prison industrial
complex, and anti-violence activism.

The deadline for submissions is April 15th 2008.  We will only accept
electronic submissions of manuscripts, in either Word or rtf (rich
text)
format to 
.
  We invite contributions in
English
from all countries.  Please include your name and contact information.
E-mail your manuscripts to us at 

 and mail any
materials and tools (posters, etc...) that cannot be electronically
sent
to Mariame Kaba c/o YWAT, P.O. Box 268945 Chicago IL 60626-2425.

For any questions about this project, please e-mail Mariame and
Michelle
at 
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?I knew that when an individual Black woman?s consciousness concerning

how she understands her everyday life undergoes change, she can become

empowered.  Such consciousness may stimulate her to embark on a path of

personal freedom, even if it exists primarily in her own mind.  If she

is lucky enough to meet others who are undergoing similar journeys, she

and they can change the world around them? -Patricia Hill Collins, 
Black Feminist Thought

"It's so liberating and important for men to understand that they can
actually be friendly to women instead of playing some gender-specific
role, and that women are in most ways the same as they are. I think that
lots of women already know that, but not so many guys do."  -my dad
8/3/07
 
Juliette Grimmett, MPH
Rape Prevention Education Coordinator
NC State University
Women's Center
3120 Talley Student Center
Campus BOX 7306
Raleigh, NC 27695-7306
Office: (919) 513-3232
24 Hour Sexual Violence Hotline: (919)618-RAPE (7273)
Fax: (919) 515-1066
email: 

website: http://www.ncsu.edu/womens_center