Sexual Harassment and Higher Education: Reflections and New Perspectives

by Billie Wright Dziech, Michael W. Hawkins

Overview

First Published in 1998. In 1984, Billie Dziech co-wrote The Lecherous Professor, one of the first books to articulate the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses. Since that time a number of books exploring the issues, cases, and laws have moved the topic into the public eye. This work, the brainchild of a lawyer and an academic, reflects on some of the more controversial and overlooked aspects of sexual harassment and its litigation and law. Chapters cover the legal and regulatory evolution of the issue and its context in higher education at the end of the 20th century; the importance of having colleges approach policy making and harassment by analyzing their own environment; an examination of the treatment of women experiencing harassment, with special focus on women who appear unscathed by it; the situation of the male on campus and the problem of non-meritorious cases; the most familiar myths of consensual relationships and the role of bans in dealing with them; and the contention that the sexual harassment issue has exposed higher education's excesses and contradictions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136518119
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/12/2012
Series:	RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	314 KB

About the Author

Billie Wright Dziech, Michael W. Hawkins

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Unfinished Business; Chapter 2 Making Shelter; Chapter 3 Of Butterflies and Birds; Chapter 4 Male Students; Chapter 5 Losing the Way; Chapter 6 Facing the Future;

Editorial Reviews

Arguing that "current estimates of sexual harassment of college students by professors approximate 50 percent," the authors present a guide for those who develop policies and programs and procedures related to sexual harassment in higher education. The program they delineate encourages, rather than merely allows, complaints and stresses the redefinition of the power from "power over" students to the "empowerment of" them. They argue for greater awareness of the particulars of each institution, more investigation of women students who appear unscathed by the issue, and banning student-faculty relationships as the only safe course in dealing with the issue. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"Into the thicket of anxieties, outrages, and legalisms we know as 'sexual harassment' march Billie Dziech and Michael Hawkins, machete in hand. The issues, as they demonstrate, often have as much to do with linguistics or jurisprudence as with abominable behavior, though evidence of the latter is not in short supply. Their clear-eyed and detailed assessment of the 'harassment' controversies now plaguing America's universities and colleges is long overdue and likely to be of immense value." — C. Michael Curtis, Senior Editor, The Atlantic Monthly

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