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The right amount of panic : how women trade freedom for safety / F. Vera-Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vera-Gray, F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual harassment of women.
- Public safety.
- Public spaces--Social aspects.
- Public spaces.
- Sex crimes--Prevention.
- Sex crimes.
- Women--Crimes against--Prevention.
- Women.
- Blaming the victim.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 182 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Do you remember the first time? p. 1
- The problem with no name p. 7
- Understanding safety work p. 11
- Structure and contents p. 16
- 2 Women, fear and crime p. 19
- A paradox? p. 19
- Gender roles and the role of gender p. 21
- The female fear p. 27
- What counts as criminal? p. 32
- What counts as success? p. 40
- 3 It's all part of growing up p. 45
- Senseless and responsible p. 45
- Girl, interrupted p. 53
- Teenagers taking control p. 62
- Nothing bad happens to good girls p. 69
- Learning to stay silent p. 74
- 4 The work of creating safety p. 79
- Invisible work p. 79
- Moving p. 85
- Clothing p. 90
- Reducing p. 94
- Being p. 99
- 5 The right amount of panic p. 107
- Force of habit p. 107
- The escalation calculation p. 113
- A catch-22 p. 121
- Trading freedom for safety p. 127
- 6 Ordinary resistance p. 135
- Public space as space for action p. 135
- It's not you - it's him p. 140
- Seeing our success p. 147
- Feminist self-defence: learning to unlearn p. 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781447342298
- 1447342291
- OCLC:
- 1045611635
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