Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment

Author: Jane Gallop
ISBN: 9780822319184

Sexual harassment is an issue in which feminists are usually thought to be on the plaintiff's side. But in 1993—amid considerable attention from the national academic community—Jane Gallop, a prominent feminist professor of literature, was accused of sexual harassment by two of her women graduate students. In Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, Gallop tells the story of how and why she was charged with sexual harassment and what resulted from the accusations. Weaving together memoir and theoretical reflections, Gallop uses her dramatic personal experience to offer a vivid analysis of current trends in sexual harassment policy and to pose difficult questions regarding teaching and sex, feminism and knowledge.Comparing “still new” feminism—as she first encountered it in the early 1970s—with the more established academic discipline that women's studies has become, Gallop makes a case for the intertwining of learning and pleasure. Refusing to acquiesce to an imperative of si

Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Education / Higher, Self-Help / Abuse, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Sexual Assault/Harassment)