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Sexual Harassment : Confrontations and Decisions (Contemporary Issues Series)

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This updated, revised new edition includes new contributions and new legal decisions and court cases as it considers issues of sexual harassment and outlines the legal and moral problems of battling the problem. From definitions of such harassment at work to its legal ramifications, this provides an important guide.

Although the book provided overwhelming substantiation to the topic of sexual harassment, the book lacked a degree of personalization from a victim's perspective. However, the book does provide an exhaustive and good theorist's view of sexual harassment -- which is good if in fact that is what you are looking to read. My interest were more aligned with the victim's perspective and thus more interested in a practitioner (vice) theorist view of: (1) victim experience(s); and (2) detailed harasser profile. One thing I have found that this book lacked as well as several others is that most assume that the female/victim is the subordinate and that the harasser is the "supervisor." The (3) key issues in subsequent investigations are an examination of the: (1) advance, (2)response and (3) employment consequence -- where the female/victim does not necessarily have to be the subordinate. Believe this book and others should address this issue in greater detail.