Sexual harassment : issues and answers

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Sexual harassment : issues and answers

edited by Linda LeMoncheck, James P. Sterba

Oxford University Press, 2001

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-402)

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Volume

: pbk. ISBN 9780195134810

Description

This a collection of contemporary popular and scholarly writing on the subject of sexual harassment. The book is designed to clarify and enrich understanding of a topic that in recent years, especially in the United States, has been the subject of contentious debate in the media, the law, and the academy. The book's variety of political analysis, legal theory, philosophical debate, multicultural and international perspectives, regulatory documents, and Supreme Court case law is unprecedented in any single volume on the subject.

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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction I. THE NATURE OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT 1: Lin Farley: Sexual Shakedown: The Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job 2: Catharine A. MacKinnon: Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination 3: Barbara A. Gutek: Understanding Sexual Harassment at Work 4: Jan Crosthwaite and Graham Priest: The Definition of Sexual Harassment 5: Mane Hajdin: Why the Fight Against Sexual Harassment is Misguided II. VARIETIES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT 6: Deborah Tannen: What's Sex Got to Do With It? 7: Eloise Salholz and Douglas Waller: Tailhook: Scandal Time 8: Linda Bird Francke: The Military Culture of Harassment 9: Tina Daunt and Anne-Marie O'Connor: Sex Bias Persists in L.A. County Sheriff's Department 10: Stephen Braun: Mitsubishi Plant Split on How to Define Writing on Wall 11: Billie Wright Dziech and Linda Weiner: The Lecherous Professor 12: Myra Sadker and David Sadker: Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls 13: Amy Harmon: Caltech Student's Expulsion Over Contents of E-Mail Raises Concerns 14: Jan Buckwald: So Many Choices, So Little Time 15: Joan Biskupic: Court Says Law Covers Same-Sex Harassment III. SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND THE LAW 16: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Basic Facts About Sexual Harassment 17: Susan L. Webb: The History of Sexual Harassment on the Job 18: William Petrocelli and Barbara Kate Repa: Legal Update 19: Robert J. Shoop: The Legal Context of Sexual Harassment on Campus 20: Anita Hill: Speaking Truth to Power 21: Beverly Grier: Making Sense of Our Differences: African American Women on Anita Hill 22: Orlando Patterson: Race, Gender, and Liberal Fallacies 23: Allan Freedman: The Fall of Bob Packwood 24: Jones v. Clinton: U.S. District Court, Arkansas, Western Division 25: Gloria Steinem: Feminists and the Clinton Question 26: Stephen Braun: Mitsubishi to Pay $34 Milion in Sex Harassment Case 27: Richard Bernstein: Guilty if Charged 28: Mary M. Clark: The Silva Case at the University of New Hampshire 29: Kathryn Abrams: The Reasonable Woman: Sense and Sensibility in Sexual Harassment Law 30: Sandra Levitsky: Closing the "Bisexual Defense" Loophole in Title VII Sexual Harassment Cases IV. CURRENT DEBATES OVER SEXUAL HARASSMENT 31: James P. Sterba: Understanding, Explaining, and Eliminating Sexual Harassment 32: Ellen Frankel Paul: Bared Buttocks and Federal Cases 33: Katie Roiphe: Reckless Eyeballing: Sexual Harassment on Campus 34: Camille Paglia: No Law in the Arena 35: Linda LeMoncheck: The Power of Sexual Stereotypes and the Sexiness of Power 36: Vicki Schultz: Sex Is the Least of It: Let's Focus Harassment Law on Work, Not Sex 37: Daphne Patai: Heterophobia 38: Jeannette Oppedisano: Academics' Shame: Our Failure to Confront Sexual Harassment 39: Warren Farrell: The Myth of Male Power V. MULTICULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES 40: Kimberle Crenshaw: Race, Sexual Harassment, and the Limitations of the Feminist Paradigm 41: Celia Kitzinger: Anti-Lesbian Harassment 42: Diana Vellos: Immigrant Latina Domestic Workers and Sexual Harassment 43: Nicole Gaouette: Japan Abuzz Over Sexual Harassment 44: Ramni Taneja: Sexual Harassment of Working Women in India 45: Pia Hilbrert: Shameful Silence: Professional Women in Mexico are Talking More Than Ever About Sexual Harassment 46: Gaby Ore-Aguilar: The Regulation of Sexual Harassment in International Treaties and Documents VII. SELECTED LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND COURT CASES 47: Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as Amended in 1991) 48: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 49: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Guidelines on Discrimination Because of Sex: Sexual Harassment 50: U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, Sexual Harassment Guidance 51: Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986): U.S. Supreme Court 52: Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools (1992): U.S. Supreme Court 53: Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. (1993): U.S. Supreme Court 54: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. (1998): U.S. Supreme Court 55: Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998): U.S. Supreme Court 56: Gebser et al. v. Lago Vista Independent School District (1998): U.S. Supreme Court 57: United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Selected Bibliography
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ISBN 9780195142990

Description

A collection of contemporary popular and scholarly writing on the subject of sexual harassment. This work is designed to clarify and enrich understanding of a topic that in recent years, especially in the United States, has been the subject of contentious debate in the media and in law. The book offers a variety of political analysis, legal theory, philosophical debate, multicultural and international perspectives, regulatory documents, and Supreme Court case law.

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