Table of Contents

List of Tables Foreword by Paul LeClerc Introduction Chapter 1. Definitions and Incidence of Academic and Workplace Sexual Harassment Overview: What is Sexual Harassment? Legal Definitions Empirical Definitions Incidence of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace and College/University Settings Do Women Harass? Summary Sample References on Workplace Sexual Harassment Sample References on Academic Sexual Harassment Chapter 2. In Their Own Voices: Responses from Individuals Who Have Experienced Sexual Harassment and Supportive Techniques for Dealing with Victims of Sexual Harassment Overview: What is the Impact of Sexual Harassment? Summary References Chapter 3. Dealing with Academic and Workplace Sexual Harassment: Individual, Institutional, and Legal Remedies Overview: How Can One Deal with Sexual Harassment? Individual Strategy: Writing a Letter to the Harasser Institutional Strategies Legal Strategies Civil Suit Criminal Suit State Laws Explanatory Models of Sexual Harassment Summary References Chapter 4. Educating the Campus and Workplace Communities about Sexual Harassment Overview: How Can the Workplace and Campus Be Educated about Sexual Harassment? Summary References Appendix: Sample Articles on Academic and Workplace Sexual Harassment 1. Women Students' Assessment of Consensual Relationships with their Professors: Ivory Power Revisited Sue Rosenberg Zalk, Judy Dederich, and Michele Paludi 2. Overreaching: Sexual Harassment and Education Catharine R. Stimpson 3. The Organizational Context of Sexual Harassment Karen Maitland Schilling and Ann Fuehrer 4. The Stress Effects of Sexual Harassment on the Job Peggy Crull 5. Sexual Harassment of Students: Victims of the College Experience Michele Paludi and Richard Barickman 6. The Incidence and Dimensions of Sexual Harassment in Academia and the Workplace Louise Fitzgerald, Sandra Shullman, Nancy Bailey, Margaret Richards, Janice Swecker, Yael Gold, Mimi Ormerod, and Lauren Weitzman 7. Division 27 Sexual Harassment Survey: Definitions, Impact, and Environmental Context Meg Bond 8. Women's Explanations of Their Harasser's Motivations Peggy Crull 9. Sexual Harassment and the Law Midge Wilson Index

About the Author

Michele A. Paludi is Director of Women's Studies at Hunter College, and a developmental psychologist who specializes in women's achievement and career pathways. She is the editor of Ivory Power: Sexual Harassment on Campus, and author of Exploring/Teaching the Psychology of Women: A Manual of Resources both published by SUNY Press. Richard B. Barickman is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College where he helped to establish the Sexual Harassment Panel.