SafeStreet

Ali, Mohammed Eunus; Rishta, Shabnam Basera; Ansari, Lazima; Hashem, Tanzima; Khan, Ahamad Imtiaz

doi:10.1145/2737856.2737870

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“…Regarding the mental health consequences of street harassment, survey-based research has found significant associations with anxiety, depression, and sleeplessness (DelGreco & Christensen, 2019), reportedly linked to decreased perceptions of personal safety (Davidson et al, 2016). Other negative psychological consequences include, feelings of insecurity and decreased self-esteem (Ali et al, 2015). Adolescent girls also reported greater negative emotions which lasted beyond the immediacy of street harassment incident (Betts et al, 2019), particularly concerning given the age of the victim-survivors (11 to 15 years old) who reported such negative affect in this study.…”

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Examining the immediate and enduring psychological impact of street harassment on women’s mental health

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Purpose Many women report experiences of street harassment during their lifetime. Previous quantitative survey research has shown the variety of ways in which this type of harassment can impact upon a victim’s life, including restricting their freedom of movement and fear of further victimisation. The purpose of this study is understand the immediate and enduring psychological impact of street harassment on female victim-survivors. Design/methodology/approach The present study aims to explore, qualitatively, women’s experiences of street harassment through thematic analysis of on 35 online blog posts. Data were collected from the “Stop Street Harassment” website, where women are invited to share their experiences anonymously. Findings Three main themes were generated from the data. First was the age at which women began to experience street harassment, with recurring early incidents during formative childhood years. Second was the impact that experiences had on their mental health and psychological well-being with feelings of shame, fear, self-loathing, as well as decreased self-esteem and confidence experienced in the immediate aftermath – though the longer-term negative emotions reported were enduring feelings of anger alongside a constant state of anxiety from feelings of vulnerability to further victimisation. The final theme was the modification of behaviour after experiencing street harassment where women choose to avoid walking alone on the streets or consciously changed their clothing choices, to avoid being harassed. Originality/value This study offers a further qualitative insight into the real-life experience and psychological consequences of street harassment upon survivors’ mental health.

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Section: Consequences Of Street Harassmentmentioning

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Examining the immediate and enduring psychological impact of street harassment on women’s mental health

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Willmott

Richardson

et al. 2023

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“…While the apps target a variety of issues from domestic violence to the sexual abuse of people with disabilities, a large category of personal safety apps focuses on sexual violence against women in public space. Most of the feminist literature on these apps categorizes their functions and many failures (Ali et al, 2015; Bivens and Hasinoff, 2018; Eisenhut et al, 2020; White and McMillan, 2020; Ford et al, 2022; Wood et al, 2022). The safety app industry itself conducts a similar inventory of features, distinguishing one app from another for the purpose of promoting premium versions that come with more comprehensive forms of risk-management.…”

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Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor

Bevan

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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The surveillant capacities of smart phones have generated an array of safety apps targeting cis female users. Current feminist scholarship studies these apps from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that stress their detractors, namely, that they are largely ineffective and that they instead burden the user with the labor of continuous assessment of oneself and one’s surroundings. This article acknowledges the apps’ numerous failings while at the same time turning attention to the surveilled, responsible, projected user they reproduce in order to tease out some of the internal contradictions and nuances of this figure and its place in digital culture. The study samples a number of safety apps that focus on gender violence in public spaces and finds that the apps solicit a form of gendered labor which asks largely cis women users to work towards ‘feelings’ of safety.

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