InStreet Harassment as Everyday Violence,Melinda A. Mills investigates womens experiences with street harassment, recognizing this phenomenon as a form of everyday violence. The author follows feminist scholars to consider the ways that silence can potentially, if only partially, protect women from verbally assaultive men who harass women in public. This violence both reveals and conceals itself in the discourses of silence about and during street harassment. It maps onto and reflects the web of violence that proves persistent and difficult to dismantle. This work operates as an initial intervention, by way of recognition of street harassment as a problem that hides in plain sight.

Melinda A. Mills is associate professor of womens and gender studies, sociology, and anthropology at Castleton University.

Chapter 1. Defining Street Harassment

Chapter 2. Recognizing the Web of Violence and Reckoning with Rape Culture

Chapter 3. Considering Controlling Images, Or Dangerous Ways of (Not) Seeing

Chapter 4. Discourses of Danger and Dangerous Discourses

Chapter 5. Between Speech and Silence, or Dangerous Ways of (Not) Speaking

Chapter 6. Dangerous Ways of Looking