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OBSCENE AND THREATENING TELEPHONE CALLS TO WOMEN

Data from a Canadian National Survey

LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution York University, Canada

NORMAN N. MORRA

LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution York University, Canada

Data from a survey on the sexual harassment of women in Canada reveal that 83.2 percent of the 1,990 women interviewed had received obscene or threatening telephone calls. Divorced and separated women, young women, and women living in major metropolitan areas were most likely to have been victims of this harassment. The "most disturbing" calls usually came at night when the respondent was home alone. The typical caller was an adult male unknown to the woman. Relatively few women reported these calls to the police or the phone company, and those who did tended to get an unhelpful response. Most women said that the calls affected them emotionally, with fear being by far the most prevalent response. The results provide strong support for feminist theorizing about violence, fear, and the social control of women.

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