Chapter 1 Preface Part 2 The Making of a Social Problem Chapter 3 Saving Womanhood Chapter 4 Sexual Harassment Industry Part 5 Typifying Tales Chapter 6 The Accusers Chapter 7 The Fruits of Injustice Chapter 8 Galloping Contradictions Part 9 The Feminist Turn Against Men Chapter 10 Heterophobia Chapter 11 The Authority of Expeirence Chapter 12 "There Ought to Be a Law" Chapter 13 Conclusion: Redefining the World
Daphne Patai is in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her writings have been published in many journals and magazines, and she is the author, with Noretta Koertge, of Professing Feminism.
Patai shows in detail how women's reasonable desire for a
'hands-off' workplace has now been transformed into a witch-hunt,
where men are the devils, and guilty until proven innocent. The
book demonstrates how in universities today the postmodern approach
to reality has affected (or infected) our bodies as well as our
minds.
*Mary Lefkowitz, Wellesley College*
A devastating expose of the way academic feminists are driving
their wedge between men and women. Professor Daphne Patai shows us
the workings of the vast Sexual Harassment Industry (SHI) that now
flourishes on the college campus. With humor, style, and persuasive
analytic power, she demolishes its male-bashing arguments. And she
does it all from a classical feminist point of view.
*Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism?*
Heterophobia is a powerful brief for personal freedom and against
efforts to politicize human relations and to strip them of their
complexity. Patai leaves no doubt that sexual harassment laws and
policies as they exist today do far more harm than good. Perhaps,
as President Clinton's tribulations continue to fuel a backlash
against 'sexual McCarthyism,' this timely book can provide an
additional push for a rethinking of the ideological and legal
orthodoxies that have gotten us where we are now.
*Reason*
Patai brings common sense and muscular reason to the task. Though
focused on academia, her outspoken study should be required reading
for the workplace.
*Publishers Weekly*
Patai’s constitutes the first main-stream feminist voice to speak
out in protest against the disastrous impact that the Sexual
Harassment Industry (SHI) has on both men and women. Heterophobia
ends the silence. A well-reasoned and well-structured book that is
a pleasure to read.
*The Women’S Freedom Network Newsletter*
Patai has set out to disrupt the 'intellectual comfort' of those
who support the sexual harassment industry. In doing this she has
issued a a timely warning to men and women everywhere about the
consequences of the new 'heterophobia.'
*Lm120 5/99*
In Heterophobia Patai tackles the subject with conviction that our
'assumptions about the relations between men and women . . . are
long overdue for questioning.'
*Grand Rapids Press, 5/99*
A provocative critique of a volatile feminist issue.
*Library Journal*
If Heterophobia is right, all of us need some quick reeducation on
sexual harassment law, before we start throwing each other in jail
for asking the right time of the wrong person.
*The Philadelphia Inquirer*
This volume discusses the current focus of many feminists on sexual
harassment, arguing that the surge of sexual harrasment cases has
served to inhibit natural interactions between the sexes, & has
replaced mutually enjoyable sexual banter with an artificial, often
threatening, environment.
*Sociological Abstracts*
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