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Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment

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ISBN-10: 0521704944

ISBN-13: 9780521704946

Edition: 2008

Authors: Carrie N. Baker

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The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment examines how a diverse grassroots social movement created public policy on sexual harassment in the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration of women from varying racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds strengthened the movement by representing the perspectives and activism of a broad range of women. Based on interviews and voluminous original research, this book is the first to show how the movement against sexual harassment fundamentally changed American life in ways that continue to advance women's opportunities today.
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Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Carrie N. Baker is an Assistant Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College in Mount Berry, Georgia. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. and Ph.D. in Women's Studies from Emory University. Her primary areas of research are women's legal history, gender and public policy, and women's social movements. The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (2008) won the National Women's Studies Association Sara A. Whaley Book Prize.

Introduction: enter at your own risk
Raising the Issue of Sexual Harassment
Articulating the wrong: resistance to sexual harassment in the early 1970s
Speaking out: collective action against sexual harassment in the mid-1970s
A winning strategy: early legal victories against sexual harassment
Growth of a Movement Against Sexual Harassment
Blue-collar workers and the hostile environment of sexual harassment
Expansion of the movement in the late 1970s: activism, theory, and the media
The Movement's Influence on Public Policy
Government policy develops
Fighting the backlash: feminist activism in the 1980s
Legal victory: the Supreme Court and beyond
Conclusion: entering the mainstream