PART II:
This book takes as its starting point fifty years of research, lifetimes of experience and a global #MeToo movement that has shown how sexual violence and harassment are persistent problems in society. Its inception was driven by the imperative to move beyond simplified and one-dimensional understandings of sexual harassment. Through investigating other perspectives, primarily from the Nordic field of gender, sexuality and intersectionality studies but also from outside academia, sexual harassment as a phenomenon is explored and developed. The book offers a unique empirical context by focusing on the Nordic region, with its high levels of both gender equality and sexual violence, its welfare states and increasing inequality, and its strong feminist movements and its exclusionary practices. Throughout the book, questions about violence, vulnerability, belonging, exposure, justice, and repression are brought into the realm of knowledge production around sexual harassment and violence. The inclusion of texts from writers and poets from outside the academic context also brings a complexity and nuance that are much needed in the framing of sexual harassment today. Hence, the book highlights what kinds of questions, imaginaries and knowledge can emerge when sexual harassment is incorporated into a broad field of research and knowledge-building.
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