Title: The women's movement against sexual harassment /
Authors: Baker, Carrie N.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Sexual harassment of women United States History; Feminism United States History; Sexual harassment of women Law and legislation United States.; Women's rights United States
Abstract: "The Women's Movement against Sexual Harassment recounts the story of how a diverse grassroots social movement placed sexual harassment on the public agenda in the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration of women from varying racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds strengthened the movement by representing the experiences and perspectives of a broad range of women, and incorporating their resources and strategies for social change. Black women; middle-class feminists; women breaking into construction, coal mining, and other nontraditional occupations; and women in pink-collar and working-class white-collar jobs all helped to convince governments to adopt public policies against sexual harassment in the United States.
Contents: Articulating the wrong : resistance to sexual harassment in the early 1970s -- Speaking out : collective action against sexual harassment in the mid-1970s -- A winning strategy : early legal victories against sexual harassment -- Blue-collar workers and hostile environment sexual harassment -- Expansion of the movement in the late 1970s -- Government policy develops -- Fighting the backlash : feminist activism in the 1980s -- Legal victory : the Supreme Court and beyond -- Conclusion : Entering the mainstream -- Appendix A : Time lines of significant events -- Appendix B : Glossary of select cases.