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The Women´s Movement against Sexual Harassment
Carrie N. Baker
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Description for The Women´s Movement against Sexual Harassment
Paperback. Sex, power, and politics converge in the story of a diverse social movement against sexual harassment. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBTB; JFFE2; JFSJ1; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
This book recounts the story of how a diverse 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 non-traditional 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 ... Read more
This book recounts the story of how a diverse 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 non-traditional 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521704946
SKU
V9780521704946
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About Carrie N. Baker
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Women´s Movement against Sexual Harassment
'Baker's book adds important concrete detail and facts to the narrative of sexual harassment. Moving away from the theoretical legal abstraction, she engages in a necessary descriptive and explanatory account of how the change in law really happened. … The book provides a fresh perspective on the issue of sexual harassment, adding the historical background and foundation necessary to understand ... Read more