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this is si helpful!
 
Thank you so much for this information
 
Juliette Grimmett
Assistant Director, NC State University Women's Center
Interpersonal Violence Services
3120 Talley Student Center
Raleigh, NC 27695
919-515-2012
 
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>>> On 4/12/2010 at 9:33 PM, in message
<>,
 "Susan Fineran"
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 wrote:
Hi everyone,
 
This is a book I use for my sexual harassment course that addresses
public street harassment: License to Harass: Law, hierarchy, and
offensive public speech by Laura Beth Nielsen.
 
Here's the link to Amazon for a description:

http://www.amazon.com/License-Harass-Hierarchy-Offensive-Cultural/dp/0691126100/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271120387&sr=1-1

 
I did a review of the book for the American Journal of Sociology in
2006....so here is a shortened description of the contents:
In her book License to Harass:Law, hierarchy, and offensive public
speech, Laura Beth Nielsen provides a provocative overview of offensive
public speech and its complex relationship to the First Amendment right
of free speech. This book provided painful-to-read first person
descriptions of offensive public speech that certainly contribute to the
need for raising this issue for public debate.Chapter four probes how
people understand offensive speech and whether they define it as a
public social problem or a private trouble and whether the law should
intervene to remedy these problems. Nielsen mentions in her book that
after an incident in June 2000 in New York City’s Central Park in which
hundreds of men assaulted, stripped, and fondled over fifty-six women
that a grassroots program called The Street Harassment Project was
developed. A premise of the Project’s is that “verbal street harassment
often becomes assault” (p. 177). An overall strength of the book is the
very clear description of the legal cases supporting free speech and
Nielsen’s organized way of presenting complex legal arguments that have
shaped our understanding of this important right. To this end the author
has written a compelling text that not only highlights the problem of
offensive public speech experienced daily by ordinary citizens but
broadens our understanding of this noxious issue.
Hope this is helpful.
 
Susan
 
 
 
 
 
Susan Fineran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Southern Maine
School of Social Work and Women & Gender Studies
96 Falmouth Street
Portland, ME 04104-9300
207-228-8533 office phone
207-780-4902 Fax

 

>>> "Juliette Grimmett" 
>>> <>
>>>  4/12/2010 7:48 PM
>>>
  
Hello everyone -

We are looking at doing more on cat calling and are having some trouble
finding any solid information on this issue. Specifically a good working
definition that distinguishes it from sexual harassment as well as
statistics (and anything college related would be even better). Does
anyone have any information you can forward to me. 

I saw War Zone many years ago and know it addresses this issue. Any
thoughts about that film? I remember liking it but also remembering
there were some folks who had concerns about it and I am trying to
remember what those were.

Thanks!

Juliette

Juliette Grimmett
Assistant Director, NC State University Women's Center
Interpersonal Violence Services
3120 Talley Student Center
Raleigh, NC 27695
919-515-2012

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www.ncsu.edu/themovement