The Women's Movement against Sexual Harassment
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Creation Date
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
New York
Document Type
Book
Description
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.
- An interdisciplinary exploration of the emergence of the movement against sexual harassment in the late 20th century
- Based on extensive original research from legal records, activist organizations and interviews with early activists, speaking out for the first time
- A narrative of how 'ordinary' women, through distinct efforts that reflected their diverse backgrounds and experiences, collectively transformed the way we approach sexual harassment