Introduction: enter at your own risk; Part I. Raising the Issue of Sexual Harassment: 1. Articulating the wrong: resistance to sexual harassment in the early 1970s; 2. Speaking out: collective action against sexual harassment in the mid-1970s; 3. A winning strategy: early legal victories against sexual harassment; Part II. Growth of a Movement against Sexual Harassment: 4. Blue-collar workers and the hostile environment of sexual harassment; 5. Expansion of the movement in the late 1970s: activism, theory, and the media; Part III. The Movement's Influence on Public Policy: 6. Government policy develops; 7. Fighting the backlash: feminist activism in the 1980s; 8. Legal victory: the Supreme Court and beyond; Conclusion: entering the mainstream.
Sex, power, and politics converge in the story of a diverse social movement against sexual harassment.
Carrie N. Baker is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Smith College, on leave from Berry College, where she is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. and Ph.D. in Women's Studies from Emory University. Dr. Baker was Editor in Chief of the Emory Law Journal while attending law school, and later served as law clerk to United States District Court Judge Marvin Shoob in Atlanta. Dr Baker's primary areas of research are women's legal history, gender and public policy, and women's social movements. Her work has been published in Feminist Studies, Women in Politics, the Journal of Women's History, NWSA Journal, the Journal of Law and Inequality, Emory Law Journal, and Women and Social Movements in the United States. Dr Baker is a member of the National Women's Studies Association and the American Sociological Association.
"Carrie Baker's important new book shows how women changed the world, or at least the conditions of working women in the United States. Carefully researched, clearly written, tough and smart, The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment is an important contribution not only to the understanding of how limits on sexual harassment were enacted, interpreted, litigated, and addressed, but also to our understanding of the potential of women working together to create a new status quo where only a short time ago, none seemed imaginable. It is both educational and inspirational." Susan Estrich, USC Gould School of Law "In this deeply-researched study, Carrie Baker explores the intertwined efforts of working women, women of color and feminists to name the problem of sexual harassment. She examines with sensitivity and insight the courageous individuals and organizations that spoke out against this insidious form of discriminatory violence in the 1970s and inspired legal as well as cultural sanctions against it by the 1980s. A must read for activists as well as academics." Nancy A. Hewitt, Rutgers University "Carrie Baker...has written an extensively researched book that explores the legal and cultural struggle that laid the groundwork for the Hill-Thomas confrontation. She shows how women from different racial and economic backgrounds came together in what was an extraordinarily diverse grassroots social movement." Suzanne Wilson, Northampton Daily Gazette "Baker traces the rise of the social movement against the sexual harassment of women during the 1970s, which brought the issue to the US Supreme Court during the 1980s. Some of the landmarks of the journey are early legal victories, blue- collar workers and hostile environment sexual harassment, and entering the mainstream." Book News, Inc.
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