Y State of Art on Street Sexual Harassment: A Study on Theoretical Approaches and Forms of Resistance to a Type of Gender-based Violence in Latin America from 2002 to 2020

Street sexual harassment is a form of interaction that takes place in public places and includes exhibitionism, persecution, expressive, physical and verbal harassment of sexual and unrequited content. This study investigates theoretical approaches and social initiatives on street sexual harassment as a form of gender violence in Latin America. For this, a search was carried out in information sources using certain criteria, such as: public space, sexual citizenship, violence and safe cities. From the texts found, a conceptualization of harassment is made as a term and as a type of violence; It is also classified according to its modalities and its difference from other types of harassment according to power relations, anonymity, public context, consent and sexual connotation. It is concluded that harassment is a type of sexual violence that affects the use of public space under conditions of equality.