Affect, gendered embodiment and sexual harassment

• DOI: 10.1332/26316897y2024d000000031
• Publication Date: 2024-09-14T22:15:55Z
• Authors: Satu Venäläinen
• Keywords: Harassment; Affect

Sexual harassment is an affective, embodied and relational issue with distinctly gendered consequences for those who experience it. Despite a vast literature illuminating the dynamics of sexual harassment, detailed analyses affective dimensions such are scarce. This article young women’s nonbinary people’s experiences from perspective embodiment. The analysis draws on Sara Ahmed’s theorisation hurts, orientations emotions to trace relational, processes gendering linked harassment. identifies two harassment-related processes: regulation resistance. Whereas takes form feminisation – process that renders bodies vulnerable resistance includes variety labelled here as preparedness, defeminisation critique. Thus, suggests may respond in varied ways, even though contributes constant shaping bodies, it does not determine them.