Rethinking Sexual Harrassment
Clare Brant editor Yun Lee Too editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pluto Press
Published:20th Sep '94
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
'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
'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.'
* ParallISBN: 9780745308388
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 480g
304 pages