Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers / Edition 1

by Linda LeMoncheck, James P. Sterba

Overview

Bringing together fifty-seven contemporary popular and scholarly selections, Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers clarifies and enriches readers' understanding of this complex and sensitive topic. Featuring a more comprehensive and in-depth treatment than specialized anthologies, it covers the nature of sexual harassment, various types of sexual harassment, and a wide range of current perspectives on the issue. The writings collected here represent a unique combination of political analysis, legal theory, philosophical debate, multicultural and international perspectives, regulatory documents, and Supreme Court case law. Chosen for their accessibility, concise presentation, and contribution to current debate, the selections examine the most compelling and perplexing questions raised by the media, the law, and academia on sexual harassment, including: What counts as a case of sexual harassment? Is it a matter of sexual attraction gone wrong? Is it a cultural expression of male domination over women? How persistent or severe must the conduct be? Can women sexually harass men? What is wrong with sexual harassment? Who is liable under the law for sexual harassment and how should they be held accountable? Should employers be liable for the harassing conduct of their employees? Ideal for courses in feminist philosophy, contemporary moral, political, and legal philosophy, and women's studies, Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers is also essential reading for anyone interested in this critical issue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195134810
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	12/28/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

University of Notre Dame

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. THE NATURE OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
1. Sexual Shakedown: The Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job, Lin Farley
2. Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination, Catharine A. MacKinnon
3. Understanding Sexual Harassment at Work, Barbara A. Gutek
4. The Definition of Sexual Harassment, Jan Crosthwaite and Graham Priest
5. Why the Fight Against Sexual Harassment is Misguided, Mane Hajdin
II. VARIETIES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
6. What's Sex Got to Do With It?, Deborah Tannen
7. Tailhook: Scandal Time, Eloise Salholz and Douglas Waller
8. The Military Culture of Harassment, Linda Bird Francke
9. Sex Bias Persists in L.A. County Sheriff's Department, Tina Daunt and Anne-Marie O'Connor
10. Mitsubishi Plant Split on How to Define Writing on Wall, Stephen Braun
11. The Lecherous Professor, Billie Wright Dziech and Linda Weiner
12. Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, Myra Sadker and David Sadker
13. Caltech Student's Expulsion Over Contents of E-Mail Raises Concerns, Amy Harmon
14. So Many Choices, So Little Time, Jan Buckwald
15. Court Says Law Covers Same-Sex Harassment, Joan Biskupic
III. SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND THE LAW
16. Basic Facts About Sexual Harassment, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
17. The History of Sexual Harassment on the Job, Susan L. Webb
18. Legal Update, William Petrocelli and Barbara Kate Repa
19. The Legal Context of Sexual Harassment on Campus, Robert J. Shoop
20. Speaking Truth to Power, Anita Hill
21. Making Sense of Our Differences: African American Women on Anita Hill, Beverly Grier
22. Race, Gender, and Liberal Fallacies, Orlando Patterson
23. The Fall of Bob Packwood, Allan Freedman
24. U.S. District Court, Arkansas, Western Division, Jones v. Clinton
25. Feminists and the Clinton Question, Gloria Steinem
26. Mitsubishi to Pay $34 Milion in Sex Harassment Case, Stephen Braun
27. Guilty if Charged, Richard Bernstein
28. The Silva Case at the University of New Hampshire, Mary M. Clark
29. The Reasonable Woman: Sense and Sensibility in Sexual Harassment Law, Kathryn Abrams
30. Closing the "Bisexual Defense" Loophole in Title VII Sexual Harassment Cases, Sandra Levitsky
IV. CURRENT DEBATES OVER SEXUAL HARASSMENT
31. Understanding, Explaining, and Eliminating Sexual Harassment, James P. Sterba
32. Bared Buttocks and Federal Cases, Ellen Frankel Paul
33. Reckless Eyeballing: Sexual Harassment on Campus, Katie Roiphe
34. No Law in the Arena, Camille Paglia
35. The Power of Sexual Stereotypes and the Sexiness of Power, Linda LeMoncheck
36. Sex Is the Least of It: Let's Focus Harassment Law on Work, Not Sex, Vicki Schultz
37. Heterophobia, Daphne Patai
38. Academics' Shame: Our Failure to Confront Sexual Harassment, Jeannette Oppedisano
39. The Myth of Male Power, Warren Farrell
V. MULTICULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
40. Race, Sexual Harassment, and the Limitations of the Feminist Paradigm, Kimberlé Crenshaw
41. Anti-Lesbian Harassment, Celia Kitzinger
42. Immigrant Latina Domestic Workers and Sexual Harassment, Diana Vellos
43. Japan Abuzz Over Sexual Harassment, Nicole Gaouette
44. Sexual Harassment of Working Women in India, Ramni Taneja
45. Shameful Silence: Professional Women in Mexico are Talking More Than Ever About Sexual Harassment, Pia Hilbrert
46. The Regulation of Sexual Harassment in International Treaties and Documents, Gaby Oré-Aguilar
VII. SELECTED LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND COURT CASES
47. Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as Amended in 1991)
48. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
49. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Guidelines on Discrimination Because of Sex: Sexual Harassment
50. U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, Sexual Harassment Guidance
51. U.S. Supreme Court, Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986)
52. U.S. Supreme Court, Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools (1992)
53. U.S. Supreme Court, Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. (1993)
54. U.S. Supreme Court, Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. (1998)
55. U.S. Supreme Court, Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998)
56. U.S. Supreme Court, Gebser et al. v. Lago Vista Independent School District (1998)
57. United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Selected Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

"LeMoncheck and Sterba's anthology on sexual harassment is a 'must read' for anyone who thinks that they understand this crucial issue. The authors who contributed to Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers raise many provocative questions about this issue, but none of them raises a question more challenging than the one LeMoncheck and Sterba themselves ask: namely, 'Whose decisions count in answering the important questions raised by sexual harassment?' Clearly, as LeMoncheck and Sterba suggest, in the multicultural and international world which we all populate, the decisions should not rest exclusively in the hands of affluent, Anglo-European, heterosexual men. Women, lesbian and heterosexual, light- and dark-skinned, poor and rich, in developed and developing nations, need to be the primary decision makers when it comes to setting public policies on sexual harassment.

In compiling this creative and comprehensive anthology, LeMoncheck and Sterba have performed a service not only for philosophers, academicians, and business executives, but also for social activists, workers, students, and the public in general. They should be applauded for successfully bridging the gap between theory and practice in their concerted effort to help eliminate one of the major causes for the continuation of gender-based inequalities."—Rosemarie Tong, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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