Anna-Maria Marshall

Confronting Sexual Harassment

The Law and Politics of Everyday Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780754625209
• ISBN-10: 0754625206
• Artikelnr.: 54153756

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.