Can Sexual Violence Be Denounced Without Perpetrating Class Violence?: Discussions on Sexual Harassment in Egypt

Public sexual harassment in Egypt is a textbook case of how a public problem can be constituted and used against working class men, who are identified as the main perpetrators. In such cases, a gender issue is exploited for political and class purposes, to propagate a law and order rhetoric and rein...

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Published in:ACME an international e-journal for critical geographies 2021, Vol.20 (3), p.231
Main Authors: Tillous, Marion, Lachenal, Perrine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture, space management
Gender studies
Geography
Humanities and Social Sciences
Law enforcement
Men
Perpetrators
Rhetoric
Sex crimes
Sexual harassment
Sexual violence
Social classes
Violence
Working class
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Summary:Public sexual harassment in Egypt is a textbook case of how a public problem can be constituted and used against working class men, who are identified as the main perpetrators. In such cases, a gender issue is exploited for political and class purposes, to propagate a law and order rhetoric and reinforce control over the lower classes. Since sexual harassment is presented in isolation from other forms of sexual violence-ones which might incriminate men of other social classes-the manner in which it functions as a threat in a larger system of domination is also invisibilized. In order to overcome these pitfalls and comprehend sexual harassment intersectionally, we propose to employ the concept of the continuum of sexual violence (Kelly 1987) in our analysis.
ISSN:1492-9732
1492-9732