Sexual Harassment and Higher Education: Reflections and New Perspectives

by Hawkins,Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9780815320364
• ISBN10: 0815320361
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In 1984, Billie Dziech co-wroteThe Lecherous Professor,one of the first books to articulate the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses. Since that time a number of books exploring the issues, cases, and laws have moved the topic into the public eye. This work, the brainchild of a lawyer and an academic, reflects on some of the more controversial and overlooked aspects of sexual harassment and its litigation and law. Chapters cover the legal and regulatory evolution of the issue and its context in higher education at the end of the 20th century; the importance of having colleges approach policy making and harassment by analyzing their own environment; an examination of the treatment of women experiencing harassment, with special focus on women who appear unscathed by it; the situation of the male on campus and the problem of non-meritorious cases; the most familiar myths of consensual relationships and the role of bans in dealing with them; and the contention that the sexual harassmentissue has exposed higher education's excesses and contradictions.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	vii	(2)
Foreword	ix	(4)
Acknowledgments	xiii	(2)
Introduction	xv
Chapter One Unfinished Business The Evolution of an Issue	3	(28)
Chapter Two Making Shelter Institutional Responsibility	31	(28)
Chapter Three Of Butterflies and Birds Helping Women Deal with Sexual Harassment	59	(26)
Chapter Four Male Students The Invisible Casualties	85	(18)
Chapter Five Losing the Way The Myths of Consent	103	(36)
Chapter Six Facing the Future Common Sense and Professionalism	139	(24)
Appendix Selected Cases	163	(10)
Selected Bibliography	173	(14)
Index	187