Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (Gender and American Culture) - Image 1

£79.00

University of North Carolina Press Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (Gender and American Culture)

Name: Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (Gender and American Culture)
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Price: 79.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Women in History

Price data last checked 30 day(s) ago - will refresh soon

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£79 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 61 days · 61 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 61 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £79 (61 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £79 - £79

Price levels: 1 different prices over 61 days

Description

Ogling, catcalling, wolf-whistling: such everyday intrusions from male strangers greeted American women from their first forays into urban space. Watching the Girls Go By is the first book-length history of the phenomenon we know today as street harassment. Spanning more than a century, from the 1860s to the 1980s, this book reveals how street harassment became normalized as part of urban life and restricted women’s freedom of movement through the city. Historian Molly M. Brookfield charts how American social and cultural discourses cast behaviors like catcalling as the natural entitlement of white, middle-class men, while scapegoating and punishing men of color and working-class men as the stereotypical—and supposedly more dangerous—harassers. She mines a rich archive of newspaper reports, popular culture, women’s writings, public policy, and more to uncover how class, race, and gender shaped Americans’ experiences of public space, including who claimed a “right” to women’s bodies, who was seen as a sexual threat, and how women fought back against harassment. Watching the Girls Go By challenges readers to reckon with how the long history and lasting impact of the seemingly trivial intrusions that constitute street harassment continue to shape public space today.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1469697297
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Women in History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 October 2026
Listed Since: 13 April 2026

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of North Carolina Press Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (Gender and American Culture)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Arlington: An African American History (Civil War America)

Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War II (Studies in United States Culture)

Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History

In a Land of Strangers: Northern Teachers in the Slave South

This Insurgent Ground: Black Women, Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp (Black Women's History)

Breaking Families, Making Families: Adoption and Child Welfare in the 1990s

Understanding Gender-Based Sexual Violence against Women and Girls: Breaking the Culture of Silence

Working-Class Girls Don't Become Artists: Looking at Art and Class

Captive Consumers: Hunger, Violence, and Inequality in American Prison Food (Justice, Power, and Politics)

Vigilantes and Lynch Mobs: Narratives of Community and Nation

Sovereign Violences of Racial Terror: Spectacles of Lynching

Civility: A Cultural History

Gender in the Twenty-First Century: The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality

Class Awareness in the United States

Anthropologist Looks at History

Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family

Nostalgia, Gender, and Nationalism: Narrative Traditions

Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film

Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology (Rural Studies Series)

Popular Culture in the Fifties

Between Myths and Margins: Gendered Racist Microaggressions as Everyday Racism (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity)

Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women

Caste War Now and Never: Unreading Gender, Race, and Land in Yucatán

Adolescent Sex Roles & Social Change