An analysis of responses to sexual assault against women in public space: practical gender needs or strategic gender interests?

dc.contributor.authorSilvestre Cabrera, María
dc.contributor.authorAristegui Fradua, Iratxe
dc.contributor.authorRoyo Prieto, Raquel
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-11T10:06:38Z
dc.date.available2025-06-11T10:06:38Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-14
dc.date.updated2025-06-11T10:06:38Z
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on sexual violence and the learned fear of rape experienced by women in their use of public space, understood as social constructions of a system of domination. We analyze a series of data, drawn from secondary sources, on the prevalence and perception of sexual assault in public space. This data confirms that sexual assault in public spaces is a real risk and that, as such, it is perceived and experienced by the majority of women. We have also selected and presented a series of institutional initiatives aimed at preventing sexual assaults on women in public spaces at night-time. Finally, we have constructed an index to study whether the selected institutional responses respond to practical gender needs or to strategic gender interests. The article concludes that all of these initiatives have a greater impact in the area of gender needs, but they are not able to reverse the structural causes of sexual assault or to contribute to true social change.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Basque Government’s call for recognition of research teams, grant number [IT1596-22]en
dc.identifier.citationSilvestre Cabrera, M., Aristegui Fradua, I., & Royo Prieto, R. (2023). An analysis of responses to sexual assault against women in public space: practical gender needs or strategic gender interests? Social Sciences, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/SOCSCI12020101
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/SOCSCI12020101
dc.identifier.eissn2076-0760
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/3010
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rights© 2023 by the authors
dc.subject.otherLearned fear
dc.subject.otherPractical gender needs and strategic gender interests
dc.subject.otherPublic space
dc.subject.otherRape culture
dc.subject.otherSexual assault
dc.subject.otherSexual violence
dc.titleAn analysis of responses to sexual assault against women in public space: practical gender needs or strategic gender interests?en
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.issue2
oaire.citation.titleSocial Sciences
oaire.citation.volume12
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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