textual harassment

Meaning

Noun

Sexual harassment in writing.
Aggressive, distorting literary or textual criticism.
Sexual harassment using text messages; compare textual intercourse, sexting.

Origin

. 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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