Sexual Harassment
Contemporary Feminist Perspectives
Published on 1. November 1997
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-335-19581-7 (ISBN)
Description
Collectively, the chapters in this book offer a range of insights into and strategies for advancing the struggle against sexual harassment in the late 1990s.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-19581-7 (9780335195817)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Sexual harassment - reviewing the field. Part 1 Refusing the label, declining to protest: off with the velvet gloves; gender inequality, sexual harassment and the toxic organization - the case of medical women; sexual harassment and the working lives of secretaries; "femininity" and women's silence in response to sexual harassment and coercion. Part 2 Sexual harassment as power: sexual terrorism on the street - the moulding of young women into subordination; men behaving badly? - a psychosocial exploration of the cultural contexts of sexual harassment; keeping them in their place - hetero/sexist harassment, gender and the enforcement of heterosexuality; daughters in danger - the case of "campus sex crimes"; sexual violence in India - "eve-teasing" as backlash.