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Book Synopsis‘Innovative and challenging ... makes a valuable contribution to understanding sexual harassment.’ Feminist Bookstore News
Trade Review'An innovative and challenging title from feminists in Britain [...] makes a valuable contribution to understanding sexual harassment'
* Feminist Bookstore News *
'A serious and scholarly written series of well referenced papers by British feminists which deserves a wide audience'
* Journal of the Institute of Health Education *
'This excellent volume of articles supplies a great deal of thought-provoking detail. The contriutors are rarely simply angry: each angle taken is represented with seriousness and nuance. However familiar the subject may seem - or precisely because we all think we know what term 'sexual harassment' means - these discussions open up a series of vital questions, both theoretical and practical, which will enable the debate to continue in ever clearer air. ...a fascinating contrast betwen 'rival accounts which consist of mutually imcompatible explanations'. A this brief tour will have shown, Rethinking Sexual Harassment is a valuable contricution to a debate that continues all around us, whether in the recent release of the latest piece of Michael Douglas male paranoia, Disclosure (the original version of which, by Michael Crichton, is cited by a number of the contributors) or in the rarely told 'other side' of all those stories of lechery in high places that our tabloids parade before us daily. Ten pages rarely pass without a sharp reminder of the range of experience covered by the term 'sexual harassment' and the iceberg of suffering that lurks below any long-debated accusation.'
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Table of ContentsIntroduction by Clare Brant and Yun Lee Too
Section One: Stories
Suzanne Gibson: Loose Rules and Likely Stories
Helen Watson: Red Herrings and Mystifications; Conflicting Perceptions of Sexual Harassment
Gargi Bhattacharyya: Offence is the Best defence? - Pornography and Racial Violence
Section Two: Categories
Ruth Jamieson: Risk, Responsibility and Sexual Harm
Celia Kitzinger: Anti-lesbian Harassment
Suzanne Raitt: Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse - When Girls Become Women
Section Three: Contexts
Ros Hunt: Seventy Times Seven?: Forgiveness and Sexual Violence in Christian Pastoral Care
Diane Purkiss: The Lecherous Professor Revisited - Plato, Pedagogy and the Scene of Harassment
Padma Anagol-McGinn: Sexual Harassment in India - A Case-Study of Eve-Teasing in Historical Perspective
Jane Beckett: In and Out of View: Visual Representation and Sexual Harassment
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Index
