What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment: Spotlights and Shadows [Hardcover]

Insights from #MeToo highlight the power of social movements to frame the publics understanding of the issue of sexual harassment and to spark counter-movements that challenge that frame. This volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers.

Part I:  Sexual Harassment Issues in the Spotlight  1. #MeToo as Social Movement  2. Ambiguous Spaces: #MeToo in the Digital Realm  3. Bystanders in the #MeToo Movement  4. Exposing Organizational Culture Through the Process of Sensemaking  5. Societal Culture and Gender-Based Violence  Part II:  Sexual Harassment Issues in the Shadows  6. Ambiguously Sexual Interactions  7. A Trauma-Informed Perspective on Sexual Harassment  8. The Urgency of Adopting an Intersectional Lens to Sexual Harassment Research and Practice  9. Masculinity and the Cycle of Sexual Harassment Against Men  10. The Hidden Experience of Women in the Lower Social Classes  11. Unanswered Questions of #NowWhat

Anne M. OLeary-Kelly, now an Emeritus Professor, held the William R. and Cacilia Howard Chair in Management at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, USA.

Shannon Rawski is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment seeks to examine both the spotlights (Part I) and the shadows (Part II) of the #MeToo movement, setting a research agenda to examine both more carefully in management research.

Sexual harassment (SH) is not a new phenomenon in organizations; it has been the topic of scholarly inquirylc9