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Reckoning : the epic battle against sexual abuse and harassment / Linda Hirshman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xviii, 316 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781328566447
  • 1328566447
Subject(s):
Contents:
Naming it, claiming it/1969-80 -- Making the legal case for women/1975-76 -- Redefining sex/1979-91 -- Mechelle Vinson's supreme trial/1986 -- Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas : confirming harassment/1991 -- Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and feminism's swerve/1992-98 -- Life among the ruins of the feminist collision with Bill Clinton/1998-2016 -- Feminism reborn: on line, on campus/2003-11 -- Roger Ailes and Donald Trump : Republicans corner the market on sex abuse/2015-2016 -- Pink pussies at the Women's March/2017 -- The press presses and the dam breaks : Harvey Weinstein/2017-18 -- #metoo/2017-18 --The year of Reckoning:2018.
Summary: "The first history--incisive, witty, fascinating--of the fight against sexual harassment, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Sisters in Law"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: The first history -- incisive, witty, fascinating -- of the fight against sexual harassment. [...] Linda Hirshman, [...] historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal -- when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus. And yet, legal, political, and cultural efforts, often spearheaded by women of color, were quietly paving the way for the takedown of abusers and harassers. Reckoning delivers the stirring tale of a movement catching fire as pioneering women in the media exposed the Harvey Weinsteins of the world, women flooded the political landscape, and the walls of male privilege finally began to crack. This is revelatory, essential social history.
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The first history--incisive, witty, fascinating--of the fight against sexual harassment, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Sisters in Law

Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal--when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus.



And yet, legal, political, and cultural efforts, often spearheaded by women of color, were quietly paving the way for the takedown of abusers and harassers. Reckoning delivers the stirring tale of a movement catching fire as pioneering women in the media exposed the Harvey Weinsteins of the world, women flooded the political landscape, and the walls of male privilege finally began to crack. This is revelatory, essential social history.

"The first history--incisive, witty, fascinating--of the fight against sexual harassment, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Sisters in Law"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-303) and index.

Naming it, claiming it/1969-80 -- Making the legal case for women/1975-76 -- Redefining sex/1979-91 -- Mechelle Vinson's supreme trial/1986 -- Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas : confirming harassment/1991 -- Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and feminism's swerve/1992-98 -- Life among the ruins of the feminist collision with Bill Clinton/1998-2016 -- Feminism reborn: on line, on campus/2003-11 -- Roger Ailes and Donald Trump : Republicans corner the market on sex abuse/2015-2016 -- Pink pussies at the Women's March/2017 -- The press presses and the dam breaks : Harvey Weinstein/2017-18 -- #metoo/2017-18 --The year of Reckoning:2018.

The first history -- incisive, witty, fascinating -- of the fight against sexual harassment. [...] Linda Hirshman, [...] historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal -- when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus. And yet, legal, political, and cultural efforts, often spearheaded by women of color, were quietly paving the way for the takedown of abusers and harassers. Reckoning delivers the stirring tale of a movement catching fire as pioneering women in the media exposed the Harvey Weinsteins of the world, women flooded the political landscape, and the walls of male privilege finally began to crack. This is revelatory, essential social history.

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