Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination

by Catharine A. MacKinnon

Book Overview

Sexual harassment of working women has been widely practiced and systematically ignored. Men's control over women's jobs has often made coerced sexual relations the price of women's material survival. Considered trivial or personal, or natural and inevitable, sexual harassment has become a social institution.
MacKinnon offers here the first major attempt to understand sexual harassment as a pervasive social problem and to present a legal argument...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300022999
• ISBN13: 9780300022995
• Release Date: September 1979
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Ground breaking legal work by leading feminist legal scholar

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