Sexual harassment : contemporary feminist perspectives

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Sexual harassment : contemporary feminist perspectives

edited by Alison M. Thomas and Celia Kitzinger

Open University Press, 1997

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780335195800

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"This will be a very useful book and will be greeted with some relief to improve reading lists on this and related fields." - Professor Carol Smart. Men's use of sexuality to exercise power over women has been a central arena for feminist analysis and political action throughout this century. Sexual harassment, a key strategy in this exercise of power, has been named and resisted by feminists for more than two decades. While considerable gains have been made, the contemporary backlash also poses a considerable threat - in the face of which, the development of more sophisticated theory and more effective practice regarding sexual harassment is essential. Collectively, the chapters in this book offer a range of new insights and strategies for advancing the feminist struggle against sexual harassment in the late 1990s.

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Introduction Sexual harassment reviewing the field Part one: 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 two: 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 context 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 Index.
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: hbk ISBN 9780335195817

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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