Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States by Brookfield, Molly M.
Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States by Brookfield, Molly M.

Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States

Ogling, catcalling, wolf-whistling: such everyday intrusions from male strangers have greeted American women from their first forays...
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Author: Molly M. Brookfield
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States by Brookfield, Molly M.

Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States

$53.92
Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States by Brookfield, Molly M.

Watching the Girls Go by: A History of Street Harassment in the United States

$53.92
Author: Molly M. Brookfield
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Ogling, catcalling, wolf-whistling: such everyday intrusions from male strangers have 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.

Author: Molly M. Brookfield
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/08/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.17w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781469697307


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 07/13/2026
Booklist 08/01/2026

About the Author
Molly M. Brookfield is assistant professor of history and women's and gender studies at The University of the South.
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