Confronting Sexual Harassment

Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' everyday problems with sexual harassment, this volume elaborates a framework for studying the role of law in everyday acts of resistance - what the author calls the legal consciousness of injustice.

Anna-Maria Marshall is based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research interests are in the fields of legal consciousness, movements and the relationship between law and social change.

Contents: The legal consciousness of injustice: a theoretical framework; The legal environment of sexual harassment: law, policies, and the women who use them; Equality, sex and productivity: the competitive framing environment of sexual harassment; The meaning of equality: perceiving the harm of sexual harassment; 'I guess that was sexual harassment': naming sexual harassment; Idle rights: employee complaints and management responses; Sexual harassment, law and social change: a view from the ground; Appendix A: interview schedule; Appendix B: questionnaire; Appendix C: measures for gender consciousness; References; Index.