Sexual Harassment - THOMAS KITZINGE

Sexual Harassment

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
1997
Open University Press (Verlag)
978-0-335-19580-0 (ISBN)
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Men's use of sexuality to exercise power over women has been a central arena for feminist analysis and political action. This book offers a range of insights and strategies for advancing the feminist struggle against sexual harassment in the late 1990s.
"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.

Alison Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of London, UK. She is currently studying the impact of the introduction of sexual harassment policies in universities in Canada and the UK; her other ongoing research interests are in gender relations and the social construction of gendered identities. In addition to her publications in these areas, she recently collaborated with Robyn Rowland on a Special Feature on Feminists Mothering Sons, which was published in Feminism & Psychology: An International Journal. Celia Kitzinger is Director of Women's Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She is the author of nearly 100 articles or chapters on issues relating to feminism, and has published seven books including The Social Construction of Lesbianism (Sage, 1987); Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology (with Rachel Perkins, Onlywomen & New York University Press, 1993); Heterosexuality (with Sue Wilkinson, Sage, 1993); and Representing the Other (with Sue Wilkinson, Sage, 1996). She is currently writing about the role of 'experience' in feminist theory and practice.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.11.1997
Zusatzinfo index
Verlagsort Milton Keynes
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 229 mm
Gewicht 360 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-335-19580-6 / 0335195806
ISBN-13 978-0-335-19580-0 / 9780335195800
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