{"title":"Understanding Adolescents' Perspectives on Street Harassment in Kathmandu, Nepal, Using Video Vignettes.","authors":"Anna Bolgrien, Deborah Levison, Binu Sharma","doi":"10.1177/10778012261484148","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After viewing a cartoon video vignette, girls and boys ages 12-17 in peri-urban Kathmandu, Nepal, were asked how a girl character felt and reacted to street harassment. Using survey questions, interviews, and focus groups, researchers address four themes: awareness of harassment, a desire to confront harassers, the need to rely upon adult intervention, and desire for social change. Findings indicate that even young girls are affected by the patriarchal project of restricting movements and dress of females. Girls' desire to confront harassers and for social change is encouraging, but generational power differentials leave them dependent on finding allies among adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"10778012261484148"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Violence Against Women","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012261484148","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"WOMENS STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
After viewing a cartoon video vignette, girls and boys ages 12-17 in peri-urban Kathmandu, Nepal, were asked how a girl character felt and reacted to street harassment. Using survey questions, interviews, and focus groups, researchers address four themes: awareness of harassment, a desire to confront harassers, the need to rely upon adult intervention, and desire for social change. Findings indicate that even young girls are affected by the patriarchal project of restricting movements and dress of females. Girls' desire to confront harassers and for social change is encouraging, but generational power differentials leave them dependent on finding allies among adults.
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Violence against Women is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women. The journal assumes a broad definition of violence; topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, sexual harassment, female infantcide, female circumcision, and female sexual slavery.