What Is Sexual Harassment?: From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520237412 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Interdisciplinary legal scholarship at its best Paul Campos For more than 100 years, starting with Oliver Wendell Holmes' famous essay "The Path of the Law," American legal scholars have bemoaned the lack of a serious sociological jurisprudence, that would treat law as a social phenomenon, rather than as a conceptual game or an opportunity to indulge in covert advocacy disguised as scholarship.Holmes was merely the first in a long line of legal thinkers to ignore his. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University Sara R. Curran Saguy's book accomplishes much and does so in an accessible and sophisticated way. I have used it to teach my undergraduates in an introductory gender course and they found it compelling and powerful. For them it opens up a black box of taken for granted assumptions about the relationship between gender and policy. It shows how gender shapes cultural and institutional arrangements, which in turn influences p
"In this path-breaking comparative study, Saguy sheds light on a crucial aspect of the lives of many working women by analyzing the various frames through which sexual harassment is understood in two national contexts."
In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United States prohibit sexual relationships across hierarchical lines and sometimes among coworkers, arguing that these liaisons should have no place in the workplace. In this age of globalization, how do cultural and legal nuances translate? And when they differ, how are their subtleties and complexities understood? In comparing how sexual harassment—a concept that first emerged in 1975—has been defined differently in France and the United States, Abigail Saguy explores not only the social problem of sexual harassment but also the broader cultural concerns of cross-national differences and similarities.