The Women's Movement against Sexual Harassment [Paperback]

Sex, power, and politics converge in the story of a diverse social movement against sexual harassment.The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment examines the diverse grassroots social movement that created public policy on sexual harassment. Based on interviews and voluminous original research, this book is the first to show how the movement against sexual harassment fundamentally changed American life.The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment examines the diverse grassroots social movement that created public policy on sexual harassment. Based on interviews and voluminous original research, this book is the first to show how the movement against sexual harassment fundamentally changed American life.The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment examines how a diverse grassroots social movement created public policy on sexual harassment in the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration of women from varying racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds strengthened the movement by representing the perspectives and activism of a broad range of women. Based on interviews and voluminous original research, this book is the first to show how the movement against sexual harassment fundamentally changed American life in ways that continue to advance women's opportunities today.Introduction: enter at your own risk; Part I. Raising the Issue of Sexual Harassment: 1. Articulating the wrong: resistance to sexual harassment in the early 1970s; 2. Speaking out: collective action against sexual harassment in the mid-1970s; 3. A winning strategy: early legal victories against sexual harassment; Part II. Growth of a Movement against Sexual Harassment: 4. Blue-collar workers and the hostile environment of sexual harassment; 5. Expansion of the movement in the late 1970s: activism, theory, and the media; Part III. The Movement's Influence on Public Policy: 6. Government policy develops; 7. Fighting the backlash: feminist activism in the 1980s; 8. Legal victory: the Supreme Court and l¼