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This book explores young adults' experiences and understandings of sexualised violence within licensed venues. Although anecdotally common, unwanted sexual attention in pubs and clubs has been the focus of relatively little criminological analysis. This text provides the first exploration of how and why unwanted sexual attention occurs in licensed venues. Using wide-ranging research from over two hundred participants, Fileborn argues that what 'counts' as unwanted sexual attention is highly context-dependent and situated within a complex assemblage of a venue's culture, environment, and community. Dealing with issues such as the roles gender, sexuality, space, and social belonging play in shaping young adults' experiences, this book recounts how young people make sense of unwanted sexual attention within a culturally complex, alcohol-fuelled, and sexually-charged environment. A thorough and thought-provoking text, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of criminology, sociology, and political science.

Digital maps have been taken up as a productive tool in both activism and academic research. However, there has been less consideration of their use as a research method in qualitative social sciences research. This paper aims to contribute towards scholarship on qualitative research by providing a critical reflection on the use of digital mapping as a research method in a feminist research project on street-based harassment in Australia. Drawing on practices of reflexivity, as well as comments made by participants across 46 qualitative interviews, I consider how digital mapping can be used to facilitate feminist research, arguing that it represents a generative instrument which lends itself to the development of in-depth insights from participants. Yet, mapping also delimits the epistemological possibilities of qualitative research, and I consider how this method simultaneously constrains what can be known about street harassment.

This article examines street harassment victims' experiences of bystander intervention in incidents of harassment. Drawing on the findings of a mixed-methods pilot study undertaken in Melbourne, Australia, it considers what forms these interventions took and the impact(s) they had on the harassment. It examines the impact(s) that bystander intervention had on participants. Findings suggest that bystander intervention is not common in incidents of street harassment. When it does occur, its impact is highly variable. Yet, bystander intervention is also central in informing victims' perceptions of safety, harm and justice. These findings present some important implications and complexities for bystander research and education and these are considered in closing.

What role does physical and virtual space play in relation to gender-based violence? Experts from the Global North and South examine how spaces can facilitate or prevent GBV and showcase strategies for prevention and intervention from women and LGBTQ+ people.

In an era of datafication, data visualisation is playing an increasing role in civic meaning-making processes. However, the conventions of data visualisation have been criticised for their reductiveness and rhetoric of neutrality and there have been recent efforts to develop feminist principles for designing data visualisations that are compatible with feminist epistemologies. In this article, we aim to examine how data visualisation is used in feminist activism and by feminist activists. Drawing on the example of digital street harassment activism, we analyse how street harassment is visualised in and through a selection of prominent activist social media accounts. We consider the platform affordances utilised by activists, and how these are harnessed in making street harassment 'knowable'. Moreover, we critically interrogate which and whose experiences are 'knowable' via digital techniques, and what remains obscured and silenced. In analysing digital feminist activists' practices, we argue that what constitutes 'data visualisation' itself must be situated within feminist epistemologies and praxis that centre lived experience as the starting point for knowledge production. Such an approach challenges and disrupts normative constructions of what constitutes data visualisation. Our findings demonstrate how feminist activists are adopting 'traditional' practices of speaking out and consciousness-raising to the digital sphere in the creation of a range of visualisations that represent the issue of street harassment. We consider the efficacy of these visualisations for achieving their intended purpose and how they might translate to policy and government responses, if this is indeed their goal. Further, we document a tension between feminist epistemologies and the prevailing logic of datafication or dataism and note how in an attempt to unite the two, some digital feminist activism has contributed to reproducing existing power structures, raising concerning implications at the policy level.

Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Introduction: Mapping the Emergence of #MeToo -- #MeToo as a Moment of Reckoning -- The Politics of Social Change -- Situating #MeToo: Trajectories of Feminist Anti-rape Activism -- Me Too, but Not You: Accounting for Who can Speak and be Heard -- Are We Listening Now? -- Outline of the Book -- The Politics of Speaking Out and Consciousness-Raising -- Whose Bodies Matter? #MeToo and the Politics of Inclusion -- Not All That Glitters Is Gold: #MeToo, the Entertainment Industry and Media Reporting -- Ethical Possibilities and the Future of Anti-sexual Violence Activism -- References -- Part I: The Politics of Speaking out and Consciousness-Raising -- 2: The Politics of the Personal: The Evolution of Anti-rape Activism From Second-Wave Feminism to #MeToo -- Introduction -- A Radical Agenda for Change -- Personalizing Victimization -- Returning to the Political -- #MeToo in the Activist Canon -- The Politics of the Personal: Developing an Agenda for Change After #MeToo -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Digital Feminist Activism: #MeToo and the Everyday Experiences of Challenging Rape Culture -- 'The World Should Know That We Face Harassment Everywhere': Being Moved Into Action -- An Easy, Banal, or "Low-Intensity" Form of Activism? -- The Transformative Potential of #MeToo -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Online Feminist Activism as Performative Consciousness-Raising: A #MeToo Case Study -- Introduction -- Consciousness-Raising Across the Waves -- Performing #MeToo, Identity, and Public Participation -- #MeToo Storytelling as Consciousness-Raising -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 5: You Say #MeToo, I Say #MiTu: China's Online Campaigns Against Sexual Abuse -- Introduction -- University: The Ground Zero -- Social and Governmental Responses.

1. Introduction: Mapping The Emergence Of #Metoo, Bianca Fileborn & Rachel Loney-Howes -- Part 1. The Politics of Speaking out and Consciousness-Raising -- 2. The Politics Of The Personal: The Evolution Of Anti-Rape Activism From Second-Wave Feminism To #Metoo, Rachel Loney-Howes -- 3. Digital Feminist Activism: #Metoo And The Everyday Experiences Of Challenging Rape Culture, Kaitlynn Mendes & Jessica Ringrose -- 4. Online Feminist Activism As Performative Consciousness-Raising: A #Metoo Case Study, Jessamy Gleeson & Breanan Turner -- 5. You Say #Metoo, I Say #Mitu: China's Online Campaigns Against Sexual Abuse, Jing Zeng -- 6. A Thousand And One Stories: Myth And The #Metoo Movement, Mary Anne Franks.-Part 2. Whose Bodies Matter? #MeToo and the Politics of Inclusion -- 7. From 'Metoo' To 'Too Far'? Contesting The Boundaries Of Sexual Violence In Contemporary Activism, Bianca Fileborn & Nickie D. Phillips -- 8. This Black Body Is Not Yours For The Taking, Tess Ryan -- 9. Beyond The Bright Lights: Are Minoritized Women Outside The Spotlight Able To Say #Metoo?, Neha Kagal, Leah Cowan & Huda Jawad -- 10. 'It's Not Just Men And Women': LGBTQIA People And #Metoo, Jess Ison -- Part 3. Not All That Glitters Is Gold: #MeToo, the Entertainment Industry and Media Reporting -- 11. #Metoo And The Reasons To Be Cautious, Lauren Rosewarne -- 12. Substitution Activism: The Impact Of #Metoo In Argentina, María Cecilia Garibotti & Cecilia Marcela Hopp -- 13. Shitty Media Men, Bridget Haire, Christy E. Newman & Bianca Fileborn -- 14. Journalist Guidelines And Media Reporting In The Wake Of #Metoo, Kathryn Royal -- 15. 'It's A Reckoning That Is Long Overdue': Reconfiguring The Work Of Popular Sex Advice After #Metoo, Christy E. Newman & Bridget Haire -- Part 4. Ethical Possibilities and the Future of Anti-sexual Violence Activism -- 16. Consent Lies Destroy Lives: Pleasure As The Sweetest Taboo, Cyndi Darnell -- 17. #Metoo As Sex Panic, Heidi Matthews -- 18. Men, Masculinities, And #Metoo: Mapping Men's Responses To Anti-Rape Advocacy And Inspiring Their Support For Change, Michael Flood -- 19. Understanding Anger: Ethical Responsiveness And The Cultural Production Of Celebrity Masculinities, Rob Cover -- 20. Online Justice In The Circuit Of Capital: #Metoo, Marketization And The Deformation Of Sexual Ethics, Michael Salter -- 21. Conclusion: 'A New Day Is On The Horizon'?, Rachel Loney-Howes & Bianca Fileborn

Community attitudes towards sexual and gender-based violence play a central role in normalising, excusing and minimising perpetrators' actions, as well as fostering a violence-supportive culture. However, we currently know little regarding how members of the community understand or perceive 'everyday' or seemingly 'minor' forms of harassment and intrusion, such as street-based harassment, with most research focusing on sexual assault and rape. To address this gap, we conducted a mixed-methods, vignette-based survey with members of the community in Melbourne, Australia. The survey examined participants' perceptions of five scenarios depicting incidents that might constitute street harassment, including the extent to which participants viewed the scenarios as harmful, complimentary or in breach of social norms, and who bore responsibility for the incident. Findings suggest that participants typically held progressive understandings of harassment, but they nonetheless drew on victim-blaming or minimising discourses at times. In closing, we consider the implications for future research and primary prevention work.