Hey Pretty Thing, How Much?: The Problematic Reality of Catcalling

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Title

Hey Pretty Thing, How Much?: The Problematic Reality of Catcalling

Description

This study explores the phenomenon of catcalling, where unwanted sexual attention is communicated through verbal and nonverbal expression. Despite countless studies concerning stranger harassment, limited research extends beyond women's experiences with catcalling. With a mixed-methods approach, this two-part study aims to determine the frequency of experiences and perpetration (Part 1), and perceptions of catcalling (Part 2) among men and women. Results from Part 1 suggest that women experience catcalling at a greater frequency, while men perpetrate catcalling at a greater frequency. As Part 2 delves further into personal experiences of victimization, results indicate common understandings of catcalling reflecting negative perceptions, while surfacing coping methods that are of a passive, benign, self-blame, and active nature. As experience has a direct relationship with perpetration for men and women, results demonstrate not merely an issue of gender; rather this study further reveals that catcalling is an intensifying social problem in contemporary society.

Jeff Halford

Contributor

Keene State College

Creator

Olivia K. Moore

Date

2017-10-11

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12088/8040

Subject

Communication

Type

Presentation

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets

AEC 2017 School of Arts and Humanities

Site pages

School of Arts and Humanities