Reckoning the epic battle against sexual abuse and harassment

The first history -- incisive, witty, fascinating -- of the fight against sexual harassment. [...] Linda Hirshman, [...] historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface...

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Main Author: Hirshman, Linda R. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Naming it, claiming it/1969-80
  • Making the legal case for women/1975-76
  • Redefining sex/1979-91
  • Mechelle Vinson's supreme trial/1986
  • Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas : confirming harassment/1991
  • Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and feminism's swerve/1992-98
  • Life among the ruins of the feminist collision with Bill Clinton/1998-2008
  • Feminism reborn: on line, on campus/[?]-2017
  • Roger Ailes and Donald Trump : Republicans corner the market on sex abuse/2015-2016
  • Pink pussies at the Women's March/2017
  • The press presses and the dam breaks : Harvey Weinstein/2017-18
  • #metoo/2017-18.