Read definitions of street harassment.

To read studies by others on street harassment, visit the Resources section of this website.

The following excerpts are from my 2007 MA thesis on street harassment for George Washington University. The first six documents are from my literature review and look at the research conducted by other scholars. The last document focuses on my research data and a few of the other sections include some of my data as well.

• Street harassment, caused by evolution or socialization? (PDF)
  
  
• Brief historical context for street harassment (PDF)
  
  
• Prevalence of street harassment (PDF)
  
  
• Why men "harass" women on the streets (PDF)
  
  
• Street harassment and racism (PDF)
  
  
• Street harassment and sexuality (PDF)
  
  
• Five page overview of my data results (including perceptions of street harassment, responses to street harassment, views of the law and street harassment, methods for combating street harassment, and opinions about anti-street harassment websites) (PDF)