I Know My Own Heart

The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840

Author: Anne Lister
Secondary Author: Helena Whitbread
ISBN: 0814792499

Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment primarily as a legal issue? High-profile sexual harassment suits, such as that of Paula Jones against President Clinton, are often life-changing events, with all parties coming away with careers, reputations, and lives profoundly affected. Women have long suffered on the job from sexual extortion, now called quid pro quo harassment, but today the controversy centers on "hostile environment" harassment. Every one has an opinion about it; managements spend more and more money training people not to do it; and still the suits strike like lightning-devastating and seemingly random. Women and men often feel polarized in the workplace by what they perceive to be general hostility couched in sexual terms. What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops questions establishment assumptions that women are, by definition, passive victims who require government help. It sees instead a period of transition toward a more balanced population of

Publisher: NYU Press
Publish Date: 1992-08-01

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General, Health & Fitness / Sexuality, Social Science / Lesbian Studies, Social Science / Gender Studies

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