Publications

Here, you will find media and academic articles about street harassment. As this research progresses, this page will be updated to include any publications that arise from the project.

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Publications from this research

Here, we will update you on publications that have arisen directly from this research project.

Media publications

Fileborn, B., & Hardley, J. (2023). “I started walking the long way”: many young women first experience street harassment in their school uniforms. The Conversation.

Fileborn, B., & Hindes, S. (2022). Catcalls, homophobia and racism: we studied why people (and especially men) engage in street harassment. The Conversation.

Fileborn, B. (2020) Four reasons why catcalling is not a compliment.

Fileborn, B. (2018) ‘Stay safe’: Why women are enraged by advice to steer clear of violent men. The Conversation.

Fileborn, B. (2017) Bystanders often don’t intervene in sexual harassment — but should they? The Conversation.

Fileborn, B & Vera-Gray, F. (2016) Trump and tram reactions show social media’s complex role in responding to sexual harassment. The Conversation.

Fileborn, B. (2016) We want men to stop honking their horn at women because they respect them, not for fear of punishment. The Conversation.

Fileborn, B. (2016) Where is the line between normal behaviour and harassment? Daily Life.

Fileborn, B. (2015) Whistling and staring at women in the street is harassment — and it’s got to stop. The Conversation.

Policy Report

Fileborn, B., & Cullen-Ross, E. (2022). Achieving justice in response to street and public sexual harassment: developing victim-centred perspectives: policy report and recommendations. University of Melbourne.


Academic publications

Fileborn, B., & Hardley, J. (2023). “I’d be in my school uniform”: the informal curriculum of street harassment. Gender & Education, online first. This article is open access.

Vera-Gray, F. & Fileborn, B. (2022). Hiding the harm? An argument against misogyny hate crime. In C. Donovan, E. Hall, & J. Clayton (eds) Landscapes of hate: spaces of abjection, discrimination and exclusion. Policy Press: Bristol.

Cullen-Rosenthal, E., & Fileborn, B. (2022) “Merely a compliment”? Community perceptions of street harassment in Melbourne, Australia. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, online first. The article is open access.

Hindes, S., & Fileborn, B. (2022). “Why did he do it? Because he’s a fucking bloke”: victim insights into the perpetration of street harassment. British Journal of Criminology, online first.

Fileborn, B. (2021). Mapping activist responses and policy advocacy for street harassment: current practice and future directions. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, online first.

Fileborn, B. (2021). Digital mapping as feminist method: critical reflections. Qualitative Research, online first.

Fileborn, B., & Trott, V. (2021). “It ain’t a compliment”: feminist data visualisation and digital street harassment advocacy. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, online first.

Fileborn, B., & O’Neill, T. (2021). From “ghettoization” to a field of its own: a comprehensive review of street harassment research. Trauma, Violence & Abuse, online first.

Fileborn, B. (forthcoming). Embodied geographies: navigating street harassment. In J. Berry, T. Moore, N. Kalms, & G. Bawden (Eds.), Contentious cities: design and the gendered production of space. Routledge. 

Fileborn, B. (2020). Online justice and street harassment: critical cartographies, countermapping and spatial justice. Onati Socio-Legal Series. Online first.

Vera-Gray, F. & Fileborn, B. (2018). Intersectional alterity and the harms of “cheer up”. The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2(1),

Fileborn, B. (2018). Naming the unspeakable harm of street harassment: a survey-based examination of disclosure practices. Violence Against Women. Accepted for publication 28th December 2017.  

Fileborn, B. (2017). Bystander intervention from the victims’ perspective: experiences, impacts and justice needs of street harassment victims. Journal of Gender Based Violence, 1(2), 187-204.

Fileborn, B. (2017). Justice 2.0: street harassment victims’ use of social media and online activism as sites of informal justice. British Journal of Criminology. 57(6), 1482-1501.  

Fileborn, B. & Vera-Gray, F. (2017). “I want to be able to walk the street without fear”: transforming justice for street harassment. Feminist Legal Studies, 25, 203-227.

Fileborn, B. (2016) Street harassment: navigating the experiences of sexuality and gender-diverse people. New Community, 54. 

Fileborn, B. (2014). Online activism and street harassment: digital justice or shouting into the ether? Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity, 2(1), 32-51.