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Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: Catcalls and Unwanted Conversations
Author(s): Cousens, Chris
Keywords: Catcalling
Discourse roles
Subordination
Conversational score
Permissibility
Date Deposited: 13-Sep-2023
Citation: Cousens C (2023) Catcalls and Unwanted Conversations. <i>Hypatia</i>. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia
Abstract: Catcalls have been said to insult, intimidate, and silence their targets. The harms that catcalls inflict on individuals are reason enough to condemn them. This paper argues that they also inflict a type of structural harm by subordinating their targets. Catcalling initiates an unwanted conversation where none should exist. This brings the rules and norms governing conversations to bear in such a way that the catcall assigns their target a 'subordinate discourse role'. This not only constrains the behaviour of the target here and now, but also influences the norms governing future conversations. Catcalls are then not only bad because of the effects on their target, but also because of their pernicious contribution to the wider normative landscape.
URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia
Rights: This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form in Hypatia https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © Cambridge University Press.
Notes: Output Status: Forthcoming
Licence URL(s): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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