Sexual Harassment of Working Women

A Case of Sex Discrimination

Author: Catharine A. MacKinnon
ISBN: 9780300022995

Sexual harassment of working women has been widely practiced and systematically ignored. Men’s control over women’s jobs has often made coerced sexual relations the price of women’s material survival. Considered trivial or personal, or natural and inevitable, sexual harassment has become a social institution. MacKinnon offers here a attempt to understand sexual harassment as a pervasive social problem and to present a legal argument that it is discrimination based on sex. Beginning with an analysis of victims' experiences, she then examines sex discrimination doctrine as a whole, both for its potential in prohibiting sexual harassment and for its limitations.

Publisher: Yale University Press
Publish Date: 1979

Subjects: Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, Law / Gender & the Law

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