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The women's movement against sexual harassment
- Title
- The women's movement against sexual harassment / Carrie N. Baker.
- Author
- Baker, Carrie N.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HQ1237.5.U6 B35 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Women's Movement against Sexual Harassment recounts the story of how a diverse grassroots social movement placed sexual harassment on the public agenda in the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration of women from varying racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds strengthened the movement by representing the experiences and perspectives of a broad range of women, and incorporating their resources and strategies for social change. Black women; middle-class feminists; women breaking into construction, coal mining, and other nontraditional occupations; and women in pink-collar and working-class white-collar jobs all helped to convince governments to adopt public policies against sexual harassment in the United States.
- 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."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1970-1990
- Sexual harassment of women > United States > History > 20th century
- Feminism > United States > History > 20th century
- Sexual harassment of women > Law and legislation > United States
- Women's rights > United States
- Feminism
- Sexual harassment of women
- Sexual harassment of women > Law and legislation
- Women's rights
- Feminismus
- Frau
- Sexuelle Belästigung
- Vrouwenmishandeling
- Vrouwenbeweging
- United States of America
- Women
- Sexual harassment
- Human rights
- Legislation
- Sexual discrimination
- United States
- USA
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-266) and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- Blue-collar workers and hostile environment sexual harassment -- Expansion of the movement in the late 1970s : activism, theory, and the media -- Government policy develops -- Fighting the backlash : feminist activism in the 1980s -- Legal victory : the Supreme Court and beyond -- Conclusion: Entering the mainstream -- Appendix A: Time lines of significant events -- Appendix B: Glossary of select cases.
- ISBN
- 9780521879354
- 0521879353
- 9780521704946
- 0521704944
- LCCN
- 2007028242
- OCLC
- ocn157022665
- 157022665
- SCSB-1462968
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library