Asking for It is the first nonacademic, single-author book since the 1990s to examine sexual assault as a social phenomenon. Noted blogger and author Kate Harding's provocative, sharp, and yes, funny book tackles rape culture and also offers some suggestions for moving toward a culture that fully respects and supports victims while protecting the rights of the accused. Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest, Congressman Todd Akin's ''legitimate'' gaffe, the alleged rape crew of Steubenville, Ohio -- sexual violence has been so prominent in recent years that the feminist term rape culture has finally entered the mainstream. But what, exactly, is it? And how do we change it? In Asking for It, Kate Harding answers those questions in the same blunt, no-nonsense voice that has made her a powerhouse feminist blogger. Combining in-depth research with practical knowledge, Asking for It makes the case that twenty-first-century America -- where it's estimated that out of every one hundred rapes only five result in felony convictions -- supports rapists more effectively than victims. Harding offers ideas and suggestions for addressing how we as a culture can take rape much more seriously without compromising the rights of the accused.

Product Description: "Asking for It "is the first nonacademic, single-author book since the 1990s to examine sexual assault as a social phenomenon. Noted blogger and author Kate Harding s provocative, sharp, and yes, funny book tackles rape culture and also offers some suggestions for moving toward a culture that fully respects and supports victims while protecting the rights of the accused...read more

A classic text on rape calls for a fundamental change in attitudes about race, gender, power, and sexuality, collecting the writing of social activists, theologians, pundits, educators, and policymakers on a variety of rape-related topics. Original.

Argues that many companies still don't take sexual harassment seriously, shows how some corporate practices protect career harassers, and explains how companies can improve working conditions and avoid possible lawsuits (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is the first anthology to take a theoretical look at violence against women. Each essay shows how philosophy provides a powerful tool for examining a difficult and deep-rooted social problem. Stanley G. French, Wanda Teays, and Laura M...read more

Product Description: This is the first anthology to take a theoretical look at violence against women. Each essay shows how philosophy provides a powerful tool for examining a difficult and deep-rooted social problem. Stanley G. French, Wanda Teays, and Laura M...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: As women are entering the workforce in record numbers, there is an urgent need to address the specific ethical problems that working women face. Providing a conceptual framework from which practical issues can be addressed, the authors focus on sexual harassment, comparable worth, leadership, advertising, and working-class women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A book that every employee should have in hand--a practical, no-nonsense guide to what sexual harassment is and what each manager, supervisor and employee should do about it. Companies will learn about limiting liability, training guidelines, and future trends...read more

Product Description: Systematically examining and documenting the range of discriminatory behaviour that many women experience on a daily basis, the editor of this volume demonstrates how subtle sexism devalues women and limits their work. Nijole V Benokraitis also explains how these practices can be challenged and changed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The question of what constitutes sexual harassment―from suggestive remarks to outright threats, from off-color jokes to lewd posters on office walls―is contentious, as is the question of how to address sexual harassment. Do all instances of sexual harassment constitute sex discrimination? Are some instances merely sexual attraction gone wrong? Do social policies aimed at eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace violate freedom of expression or do they make working relationships possible between women and men? In this uncompromising yet respectful debate, two philosophers of widely divergent views present clear arguments and then respond directly to each other's reasoning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This unique series gives women solid business information and career guidance while covering issues of particular concern -- such as breaking through gender barriers when job hunting, starting a business, or traveling.

Product Description: Sexual harassment has become a topic of much interest during the last decade. Part of the heightened interest may be due to a few highly publicized accusations. Yet, another factor contributing to the increased attention is recent information on the startlingly high frequency of sexual harassment and on its serious consequences...read more

Product Description: The symbolic order of gender in organizations - how gender relations are culturally and discursively produced and reproduced, and how they might be `done' differently, are explored in this book. Silvia Gherardi focuses on the relationship between gender, power and culture in organizations and on the need to come to grips with the pervasive, elusive and ambiguous nature of gender in work settings...read more

Product Description: Book by Carson, Patricia Wingard

Product Description: This is an exploration of how sexual harassment came to be defined, what institutional forces and concepts shape our understanding of it and the limitations of the language used when discussing it. The book brings together essays written by feminist scholars and practitioners in the fields of law, literature, the social sciences, history and cultural studies...read more

Explores the problem of sexual harassment in secondary schools, provides the views of the people involved, and suggests solutions

Product Description: This is an interdisciplinary approach to sexual harassment that examines the meaning of concepts such as discourse, power, ideology, sexuality, and abuse. The essays explore discursive practice as a way of understanding sexual harassment, how it is normalized and sustained, how it may be contested and challenged, and how it may be studied...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the growth of public knowledge and concern about the issue of sexual harassment, describes conditions in other countries, and considers recent developments in the United States