Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the social construction of women's corrective facework after experiencing gender based street harassment. A thematic analysis using open coding was used to explore, examine, and identify themes within the data. Three major themes were revealed in the data and they are 1) a resistance against a cycle of facework, 2) public spaces without accountability, and 3) disproportionate responses from men. In addition to the three themes, I will present an interpretation of Twitter as a public journal used to resist normative realities of gender based street harassment. These results are important to add to the limited research on the effects of gender based street harassment on women's lived experiences.
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Graduation Date
2018
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Sandoval, Jennifer
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Communication
Degree Program
Communication; Interpersonal Communication
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0007032
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0007032
Language
English
Release Date
May 2018
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Knapp, Emily, "What #NoWomanEver Wants To Hear: The Social Construction of Corrective Facework After Street Harassment" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5781.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/5781