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Sexual Harassment of Working Women
Catharine A. Mackinnon
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Paperback. A practicing attorney views the sexual harassment of working women as a pervasive social problem and presents a legal argument that it is discrimination based on sex. Series: Yale Fastback Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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 the first major 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 ... Read more
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 the first major 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Yale Fastback Series
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300022995
SKU
V9780300022995
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