The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 3, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521879354
Subjects: Demonstrations & protest movements; Social history; Stalking & sexual harassment; Women's studies; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Feminism & Feminist Theory; General; Political Science / General; Gender & the Law; 20th century; Feminism; History; Law and legislation; Sexual harassment of women; United States
Description: "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.

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."--Jacket.