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Because our society's sensitivity to public harassment is only beginning, I envision this book as of importance to women and men equally. Because I know that other social groups besides women are tar... gets of public harassment, I intend this book for the general reader. I know, however, that I sometimes use methods and terms with which some readers may be unfamiliar. I have explained these as well as need be, I think. What may be less apparent is the validity and reliability of my sampling approach, that of ethnography, the intensive study of some aspects of a culture. Many anthropologists have written more faithfully and certainly more extensively than I on ethnography as a method. What the general, even the academic, reader needs to recall is that an ethnography concentrates on process and on characterization, not on sophisticated statistics that seem to tell us much but can be pseudo-scientific mystification. Ethnography can also elucidate the out-ofawareness "achievement" of social categories, and this understanding of what we ordinarily accept as seamless and "individualistic" expression asfor the momentself-conscious attainment is inherent in my approach. So, although my sample is a sizable one, I often speak here in "quasi-numericals" like frequently or most individuals. As should also be [Show More]

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