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Street harassment can be defined "experiencing unwanted sexual attention from strangers in public". Street harassment is considered a form of sexual terrorism. It occurs usually between a man and a woman, where the man is the perpetrator and the woman is the victim.

Victims of street harassment can experience anything from "mild discomfort to intense fear", according to Lucía Sánchez (Clinical Psychology degree). Also, the feelings evoked in a harassment situation may reinforce stronger feelings like terror about being raped or in another situation of sexual violence. This effects, long term, have a psychological negative impact in women.

Another important aspect to consider is that men and women have different perceptions about street harassment. This has a social historical background; men have always been more powerful and stronger physically, and abuse from men towards women has historically been more present in our society. Women typically perceive street harassment as "an intrusion into personal space, a humiliating experience, a potential threat a type of violence, and abuse against them", while men don't give much importance to it, because they lack the feelings of insecurity and impotence that women experience.

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Street harassment perception and its relations with self-objectification of women

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Violence against women occurs frequently around the world, between 7 and 36% of women reported having experienced sexual abuse or some form of violence (UN 2006). At the same time 59% of women report have been victims of sexual aggression by her intimate partner before age 15. Street harassment is a type of violence against women that deprives them of accessing essential basics needs, sociocultural events, enjoyment, and impacts their mental and physical health. One type of sexual harassment that is frequently trivialized is sexual harassment in the streets (Bowman 1993).

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Street harassment is directly related to women self-objectifying themselves. Objectification, in this context, is a prioritization of a woman's physical and sexual appearance, over other characteristics.

Studies show that women that experience street harassment are more likely to experience self-objectification. This happens as a coping mechanism, since the majority of women that live a street harassment situation have a passive response (ignoring and feeling insecure, not answering back) towards the perpetrator.

Also, self-objectification can have several impact on a woman's physical and mental health. According to Nature Reviews Psychology, women that perceive themselves as objectified, are more likely to be perceived by society in this way; society is more likely to dehumanize them. Following this line, women that self-objectify are perceived like people with lower intelligence levels, and not taken as seriously compared to women that don't slef-objectify. This self perception can affect negatively a woman's self esteem, making her feel as if she deserves de street harassment. This occurs because people stop considering a woman's characteristics, and instead only pay attention to her sexual features. This makes the victim feel as if she does not have any characteristics to offer, resulting in an insecure woman.

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I will use photography as my main resource to obtain my BOW. I will use several photographs for each piece of work.

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I will use the collage technique in order to make my photographs make sense. I will print my images, cut and paste them in specific layouts to create an intended effect.

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I want to use lines and shapes on top of the actual collage, in order to give more detail to my artwork and to evoke feelings and effects on the reader.

I won't use color, since I want my images to be in black and white, but I will use value. I want to make a clear differences between the high and low values, as seen in the image above. I will use editing apps to edit my images before printing them, and I will give lights and shadows to them after I print them with paint.

I want to play around with space by arranging the layout of my images. Even though is not appreciated in the reference image, I want to make the woman in the image smaller than the perpetrator. I want to do this in order to give the sensation of a weak victim, and evoke impotence in the viewer.

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I want the main piece of my body of work to be a small woman walking in a street, and I will edit big masculine eyes around her. The idea of this piece is to represent the feeling of being observed.

The second piece of work will be another victim of street harassment, and I want to explore the concept of adding text in a graffiti form, simulating the street.

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Among women, 91% of them has experienced at least once any type of street harassment. A study was conducted by the organization Stop Street Harassment in 2014, analyzing cases of street harassment by different criteria. The study includes sections depending on the type of harassment experienced, and depending on the nationality/ethnicity of women affected.

Firstly, the studies show that the country with more harassed women is India, with 100% of feminine population being victim at least once of sexual terrorism. The state of California ties with India, as the totality of the feminine population of the state has also been victim of street harassment. Countries following in the list are Pakistan, with 96%, and Yemen with 86%.

The second study focused on the type of violence women experienced. The study was divided into 2 parts, were the first part is lower severity harassment than the second one. The first part of the study showed that the three most common forms of street harassment are staring, honking, and whistling, with 91% of women having experienced it. Then, we have sexist comments with 82% of women having experienced it, and vulgar gestures, with 78% of women experiencing it at least once. For the second part of the study, more severe forms of harassment were considered. On top of the list, we have women being followed, with 70% of women experiencing it, preceded by women being path blocked, situation that 58% of women have encountered. On the third place, we have that 52% of women have experienced sexual touching or grabbing. Lastly, 36% of women have been victims of being witnesses of public masturbation from part of the perpetrator.

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Street harassment is an under-researched topic, but it's clear from the few studies that exist that it is a significant and prevalent problem.

In 2014, SSH commissioned a 2,000-person national survey in the USA with surveying firm GfK. The survey found that 65% of all women had experienced street harassment. Among all women, 23% had been sexually touched, 20% had been followed, and 9% had been forced to do something sexual. Among men, 25% had been street harassed (a higher percentage of LGBT-identified men than heterosexual men reported this) and their most common form of harassment was homophobic or transphobic slurs (9%). Read more findings.
More studies about the street harassment of women and female-identified individuals: 1 - Academic & Community Studies in 37 Countries
2 -- Two Online Studies by Stop Street Harassment

In one of the surveys of 811 women, 99 percent experienced street harassment, including:
More studies about the street harassment of LGBQT individuals:
* According to a report by the Center for American Progress, LGBT individuals report high rates of discrimination in public spaces, so did gay New York residents who took a 2001 survey.

* Transgender individuals face particularly high rates of public discrimination according to a report by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE).

* 2013 study of 93,000 LGBQT individuals in the European Union found that half avoided public spaces sometimes because of street harassment and most reported high levels of fear in locations like restaurants, public transportation, streets, parking lots, and parks.

* When Patrick Ryne McNeil surveyed 331 gay and bisexual men around the world about their experience with street harassment for his master's thesis in 2012, about 90 percent said they are sometimes, often, or always harassed or made to feel unwelcome in public spaces because of their perceived sexual orientation.

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Street harassment is an under-researched topic, but it's clear from the few studies that exist that it is a significant and prevalent problem. In 2014, SSH commissioned a 2,000-person national survey in the USA with surveying firm GfK. The survey found that 65% of all women had experienced street harassment.