Sex Roles (2012) 66:296â298 DOI 10.1007/s11199-011-0066-6 BOOK REVIEW Hey, Shorty! A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets. By Joanne N. Smith, Mandy Van Deven, & Meghan Huppuch, New York, NY, Feminist Press, 2011. 192 pp. $13.95 (paperback) ISBN: 978-155861669-1 Corrine Bertram Published online: 8 September 2011 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Feminist audiences, particularly those who read peerreviewed research in journals such as Sex Roles, are often well-versed in the prevalence of violence against women and girls (See Rozee and Koss 2001; Shute et al. 2008, for examples from Sex Roles and Psychology of Women Quarterly, respectively). What is less common in the pages of the many feminist journals is documentation of girlsâ and womenâs resistance to that violence. A cursory search of PsycINFO yields 2479 items to be retrieved about âsexual harassmentâ alone and 50 items for the combined terms âsexual harassmentâ and âresistance.â In the tradition of Stein and Sjostrom (1994) Flirting or Hurting?: A Teacherâs Guide on Student-to-Student Sexual Harassment in Schools; Girls Inc. and The Center for Anti-Violence Educationâs (1998) Action for Safety, a self-defense and violence prevention curriculum for use with girls; and Fine et
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