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["Susan Fineran" <>]

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

Want to learn more about being a peer educator?
www.ncsu.edu/themovement

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