Stewart, Martha

Mahoney, Margaret; Farina, Katie A.

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“…Discrimination is about power and domination, but power and domination exercised against women is generally not solely about gender and sexuality. 124 This does not mean that the Title VII gender-neutral construction of harassmentthat women harass men and do so in the same way that men harass womenis correct either. The power and domination that form the basis of harassment and define its effects depend on the relative placement of men and women, and of various races and classes, in society's hierarchy.…”

Section: B Toward An Alternate Theory Of Sexual Harassmentmentioning

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Fictionalizing Harassment: Disclosing the Truth

Ontiveros¹,

Crichton²,

Morris³

1995

Michigan Law Review

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. people often tell stories. And these stories are telling. 1 Ask an experienced employment discrimination lawyer to describe a "typical sexual harassment case," and the lawyer might describe the case of a saleswoman who becomes part of a previously all-male department, is subjected to sexist jokes and pranks, and is told that she could only close a sale in a motel room and that a woman has no place in sales. Another lawyer might describe a Latina custodian who, over her protests, is regularly touched and kissed by her supervisor and told that she will have to submit to his advances to keep her job. Few attorneys, if any, would describe a white male professional harassed by his new female boss on her first day of a new job. 2 It is disheartening, then, that the only best-selling work of popular fiction to deal with sexual harassment 3-Disclosure, by

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Section: B Toward An Alternate Theory Of Sexual Harassmentmentioning

confidence: 99%