Sexual Harassment and Higher Education

Reflections and New Perspectives

Billie Wright Dziech, Michael W. Hawkins

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136518119
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Series Editor's Preface
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Half Title
• Chapter One Unfinished Business The Evolution of an Issue
• Chapter Two Making Shelter Institutional Responsibility
• Chapter Three Of Butterflies and Birds Helping Women Deal with Sexual Harassment
• Chapter Four Male Students The Invisible Casualties
• Chapter Five Losing the Way The Myths of Consent
• Chapter Six Facing the Future Common Sense and Professionalism
• Appendix Selected Cases Related to Sexual Harassment/Discrimination in College and University Settings: Citations
• Selected Bibliography
• Index