Sexual Harassment Online: Shaming and Silencing Women in the Digital Age

A critical examination of how women are shamed, silenced, and policed on social media, this book unpacks the intersection of online misogyny with gender, race, ethnicity, and class.

In this edition of Cyber Book Club, we feature Sexual Harassment Online by Tania G. Levey, a thought-provoking exploration of the language and culture of online abuse. Levey analyzes how derogatory terms such as “sl**,” “who**,” “bit**,” and “c**t” function as tools to enforce gender norms, punish women’s autonomy, and limit their public participation i…