textual harassment

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textual harassment

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Blend of textual + sexual harassment. The term textual harassment is from Mary Jacobus, 'Is There a Woman in This Text?' New Literary History 14 (Fall 1982): 117-41."

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uncountable Sexual harassment in writing. She places the textual harassment experienced by all women writers at her own disposal as evidence of her grace, and hence her authority.
uncountable Aggressive, distorting literary or textual criticism. Iraneus contrasts the unity and integrity of these writings with the distorted, contextless citations of the Gnostics. He describes the code of textual harassment that allows these heretics to chip away at the Scriptures, […].
uncountable Sexual harassment by means of explicit text messages.

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@misc{textual_harassment_2026,
  title = {textual harassment},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/textual%20harassment},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}