
Rethinking Sexual Harrassment
Pluto Press
Published on 20. September 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-7453-0838-8 (ISBN)
Description
'An innovative and challenging title from feminists in Britain [...] makes a valuable contribution to understanding sexual harassment' Feminist Bookstore News
'Serious and scholarly ... deserves a wide audience' Journal of the Institute of Health Education
'Excellent ... However familiar the subject may seem - or precisely because we all think we know what term 'sexual harassment' means - these discussions open up a series of vital questions, both theoretical and practical. Rethinking Sexual Harassment is a valuable contribution to a debate that continues all around us' Parallax
Sexual harassment continues to stimulate controversy and attract partisan responses. This is an exciting and original exploration of how it came to be defined, what institutional forces and contexts shape our understanding of it. This multidisciplinary study brings together essays from feminist scholars in the fields of law, literature, the social sciences, history and cultural studies.
The contributors' central argument is an awareness of the social and discursive contexts required to challenge sexual harassment effectively. Offering insight into current limitations and making practical suggestions for ways forward, this wide-ranging collection addresses general readers and professionals alike.
Contributors include Suzanne Gibson; Helen Watson; Gargi Bhattacharyya; Ruth Jamieson; Celia Kitzinger; Suzanne Raitt; Ros Hunt; Diane Purkiss; Padma Anagol-McGinn and Jane Beckett
'Serious and scholarly ... deserves a wide audience' Journal of the Institute of Health Education
'Excellent ... However familiar the subject may seem - or precisely because we all think we know what term 'sexual harassment' means - these discussions open up a series of vital questions, both theoretical and practical. Rethinking Sexual Harassment is a valuable contribution to a debate that continues all around us' Parallax
Sexual harassment continues to stimulate controversy and attract partisan responses. This is an exciting and original exploration of how it came to be defined, what institutional forces and contexts shape our understanding of it. This multidisciplinary study brings together essays from feminist scholars in the fields of law, literature, the social sciences, history and cultural studies.
The contributors' central argument is an awareness of the social and discursive contexts required to challenge sexual harassment effectively. Offering insight into current limitations and making practical suggestions for ways forward, this wide-ranging collection addresses general readers and professionals alike.
Contributors include Suzanne Gibson; Helen Watson; Gargi Bhattacharyya; Ruth Jamieson; Celia Kitzinger; Suzanne Raitt; Ros Hunt; Diane Purkiss; Padma Anagol-McGinn and Jane Beckett
Reviews / Votes
'An innovative and challenging title from feminists in Britain [...] makes a valuable contribution to understanding sexual harassment' * Feminist Bookstore News * 'A serious and scholarly written series of well referenced papers by British feminists which deserves a wide audience' * Journal of the Institute of Health Education * 'This excellent volume of articles supplies a great deal of thought-provoking detail. The contriutors are rarely simply angry: each angle taken is represented with seriousness and nuance. However familiar the subject may seem - or precisely because we all think we know what term 'sexual harassment' means - these discussions open up a series of vital questions, both theoretical and practical, which will enable the debate to continue in ever clearer air. ...a fascinating contrast betwen 'rival accounts which consist of mutually imcompatible explanations'. A this brief tour will have shown, Rethinking Sexual Harassment is a valuable contricution to a debate that continues all around us, whether in the recent release of the latest piece of Michael Douglas male paranoia, Disclosure (the original version of which, by Michael Crichton, is cited by a number of the contributors) or in the rarely told 'other side' of all those stories of lechery in high places that our tabloids parade before us daily. Ten pages rarely pass without a sharp reminder of the range of experience covered by the term 'sexual harassment' and the iceberg of suffering that lurks below any long-debated accusation.' * Parallax *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
15 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
524 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7453-0838-8 (9780745308388)
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Clare Brant | Yun Lee Too
Rethinking Sexual Harrassment
E-Book
09/1994
1st Edition
Pluto Press
€142.99
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Persons
Claire Brant is a Senior Lecturer in English at King's College London, UK. She has previously held posts at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. She has co-edited three essay collections and published numerous articles on eighteenth-century literature and culture.
Content
Introduction by Clare Brant and Yun Lee Too
Section One: Stories
Suzanne Gibson: Loose Rules and Likely Stories
Helen Watson: Red Herrings and Mystifications; Conflicting Perceptions of Sexual Harassment
Gargi Bhattacharyya: Offence is the Best defence? - Pornography and Racial Violence
Section Two: Categories
Ruth Jamieson: Risk, Responsibility and Sexual Harm
Celia Kitzinger: Anti-lesbian Harassment
Suzanne Raitt: Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse - When Girls Become Women
Section Three: Contexts
Ros Hunt: Seventy Times Seven?: Forgiveness and Sexual Violence in Christian Pastoral Care
Diane Purkiss: The Lecherous Professor Revisited - Plato, Pedagogy and the Scene of Harassment
Padma Anagol-McGinn: Sexual Harassment in India - A Case-Study of Eve-Teasing in Historical Perspective
Jane Beckett: In and Out of View: Visual Representation and Sexual Harassment
Select Bibliography
Index
Section One: Stories
Suzanne Gibson: Loose Rules and Likely Stories
Helen Watson: Red Herrings and Mystifications; Conflicting Perceptions of Sexual Harassment
Gargi Bhattacharyya: Offence is the Best defence? - Pornography and Racial Violence
Section Two: Categories
Ruth Jamieson: Risk, Responsibility and Sexual Harm
Celia Kitzinger: Anti-lesbian Harassment
Suzanne Raitt: Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse - When Girls Become Women
Section Three: Contexts
Ros Hunt: Seventy Times Seven?: Forgiveness and Sexual Violence in Christian Pastoral Care
Diane Purkiss: The Lecherous Professor Revisited - Plato, Pedagogy and the Scene of Harassment
Padma Anagol-McGinn: Sexual Harassment in India - A Case-Study of Eve-Teasing in Historical Perspective
Jane Beckett: In and Out of View: Visual Representation and Sexual Harassment
Select Bibliography
Index