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Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Politics of Purity (American Intellectual Culture) Hardcover – October 27, 1998

by Daphne Patai (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
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What does it mean to be a feminist today? Should women require special legislation to protect them from sexual harassment? Daphne Patai's controversial look at the nation's current epidemic of sexual harassment charges answers these questions and illuminates complex ideological struggles within contemporary feminism. By investigating the ongoing attempts to regulate sexual conduct, Heterophobia argues that women's pursuit of a "comfortable" environment has created a feminist-induced hostility toward men and heterosexuality. Patai identifies the origins and evolution of "the sexual harassment industry," and she presents cases of those men and women whose lives were ruined by false or frivolous charges of harassment. A scathing criticism of political and sexual "correctness," this thought-provoking and powerfully argued book is sure to incite debate among all Americans concerned with the legacy and future of women's rights.
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    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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    October 27, 1998
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    6.22 x 1.11 x 9.28 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0847689875
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    978-0847689873
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“Patai shows in detail how women's reasonable desire for a 'hands-off' workplace has now been transformed into a witch-hunt, where men are the devils, and guilty until proven innocent. The book demonstrates how in universities today the postmodern approach to reality has affected (or infected) our bodies as well as our minds.” ―Mary Lefkowitz, Wellesley College

“A devastating expose of the way academic feminists are driving their wedge between men and women. Professor Daphne Patai shows us the workings of the vast Sexual Harassment Industry (SHI) that now flourishes on the college campus. With humor, style, and persuasive analytic power, she demolishes its male-bashing arguments. And she does it all from a classical feminist point of view.” ―Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism?

“Heterophobia is a powerful brief for personal freedom and against efforts to politicize human relations and to strip them of their complexity. Patai leaves no doubt that sexual harassment laws and policies as they exist today do far more harm than good. Perhaps, as President Clinton's tribulations continue to fuel a backlash against 'sexual McCarthyism,' this timely book can provide an additional push for a rethinking of the ideological and legal orthodoxies that have gotten us where we are now.” ―Cathy Young, Reason

“Patai brings common sense and muscular reason to the task. Though focused on academia, her outspoken study should be required reading for the workplace.” ―Publishers Weekly

“Patai's constitutes the first main-stream feminist voice to speak out in protest against the disastrous impact that the Sexual Harassment Industry (SHI) has on both men and women. Heterophobia ends the silence. A well-reasoned and well-structured book that is a pleasure to read.” ―Wendy Mcelroy, The Women'S Freedom Network Newsletter

“Patai has set out to disrupt the 'intellectual comfort' of those who support the sexual harassment industry. In doing this she has issued a a timely warning to men and women everywhere about the consequences of the new 'heterophobia.'” ―David Nolan, Lm120 5/99

“In Heterophobia Patai tackles the subject with conviction that our 'assumptions about the relations between men and women . . . are long overdue for questioning.'” ―Morgan James, Grand Rapids Press, 5/99

“A provocative critique of a volatile feminist issue.” ―Patricia A. Beaber, College of New Jersey, Library Journal

“If Heterophobia is right, all of us need some quick reeducation on sexual harassment law, before we start throwing each other in jail for asking the right time of the wrong person.” ―Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

“This volume discusses the current focus of many feminists on sexual harassment, arguing that the surge of sexual harrasment cases has served to inhibit natural interactions between the sexes, & has replaced mutually enjoyable sexual banter with an artificial, often threatening, environment.” ―Sociological Abstracts

About the Author

Daphne Patai is in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her writings have been published in many journals and magazines, and she is the author, with Noretta Koertge, of Professing Feminism.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 27, 1998
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847689875
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847689873
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.22 x 1.11 x 9.28 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #4,818,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  • Richmond West
    5.0 out of 5 stars The best book critical of hostile environment sexual harassment law
    Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2009
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    I am currently a Ph.D. student doing a dissertation using Foucault to criticize "hostile environment" sexual "harassment" law, and I've written a novel, Witch Hunt, dealing with this issue; and I have faced charges twice. Patai's book changed my life. In my opinion, hers is the best book on the subject! Patai has a far more polished scholarly style than Katie Roiphe or Camille Paglia, and Patai gives a detailed account of the history of how these laws developed, along with critical discussion of key figures such as Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, Bernice Sandler, and others. She also reviews important critical works by Helen Garner and Jane Gallop. Overall, Patai makes the most sustained arguments against "hostile environment" sexual "harassment" law that I have seen. Her work is easy to read, clear, and concise, and her arguments are devastating. Her theory on the domain expansion of the Sexual Harassment Industry seems quite accurate to me, and relates well to my work: regarding Foucault's concerns about how liberation movements inevitably betray themselves when their power becomes too expansive. On my dissertation, when I do a Foucauldian "history of the present," on how these laws developed, Patai's book has been and will be indispensable to me. I highly recommend this book for any gender studies course, for a view that is feminist, yet outside the "victimization" party line. This is an outstanding book that I wish everyone in the Academy would read!
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  • Jay Raskin
    5.0 out of 5 stars This amazing thing is that this book was written 20 years ...
    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2018
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    This amazing thing is that this book was written 20 years ago. Daphne Patai was on the inside of the feminist movement when it was taken over by insane anti-heterosexuals. She actually predicted the future of the movement by watching it closely and objectively in the present.
    If you want to read the writings of a real prophet, read this book.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Prophetic
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019
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    This book is probably more relevant in 2019 than it was when it was written.
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  • a customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth at Last.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2013
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    This book helped me understand much of my pain. I hope it will do the same for others.

    Daphne was once a Women's Studies Professor. She actively worked with Feminists. Now she's seen the vast damage being done by Feminists and the Sexual Harassment Industry or SHI as she puts it. This book is an attempt at atoning for the help she once gave them.

    Near the beginning she addresses how social groups try to minimize reports of Homosexual assaults. They fear this would make Homosexuality itself seem to be a threat. Yet no effort is made to do the same for Heterosexuals. If anything SHI seems to be a deliberate effort to make Heterosexuality, and Male Heterosexuals, seem to be nothing but dangerous.

    Most modern Feminists don't see Heterosexuality as anything but an assault. They consider any flirtation to be harassment and any hetero-sex to be rape. To them there is no such thing as consensual sex.

    Even those who don't consider sex to be rape maintain the ask permission for everything policy. "May I kiss you, Can I touch you, etc." They consider Heterosexuality to be something unpleasant that females merely tolerate. That's a perfect reflection of their view of Males. They see Maleness itself as something dirty/wretched that females are forced to endure.

    Feminists take their views to the point where they lump all unwanted attention into a single group and treat it the same. They consider an unwelcome kiss or a dirty joke to be as chargeable as a full assault. They don't teach females to be strong enough to handle the minor things. They condition girls and women to see themselves as damsels in distress, who need Feminism to protects them.

    Feminists dismiss anything that doesn't strengthen their political dominance. Any female who doesn't agree with them - any who doesn't hate men or doesn't see womanhood as victimized by all men - is a victim of patriarchy, tainted, a traitor or brainwashed. Indeed some Feminists call Heterosexuality a form of Stockholm Syndrome. Those women like Daphne who actively speak out against Feminism are called Mercenaries, or whenever possible conservatives.

    As for SHI. It's completely undefined. Even the Supreme Court can't define Sexual Harassment. The policies are so broadband that expressing any sexual interest, or doing/saying anything could be considered sexual is enough to get a man fired. Men's careers have been destroyed such charges. Due process is consider part of Patriarchy and therefore dismissed. As far as SHI is concerned Men have No Rights.

    Daphne covers all this and much more.
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  • Gamaliel Isaac
    5.0 out of 5 stars Money Power and False Accusations
    Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2015
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    There are many stories here that reveal what is wrong with out society, one that I think especially does is the story of a student Michelle Gretzinger's attack on her professor, Ramdas Lamb at the University of Hawaii. One tactic used to silence people is to accuse them of creating a hostile environment. Michelle Gertzinger accused her professor of creating a hostile environment by discussing cases of false allegations of rape. She argued that women don't make false accusations of rape. When her accusations weren't taken seriously she falsely accused her professor of raping her. She lost in court but the University of Hawaii paid her $175,000. This is an example of the appeasement of rape accusers and it only encourages more women to bring false charges of rape against professors. Notice the irony here a woman who claimed that women don't lie about rape, lied about rape. Clearly she realized that this was not the case but told the lie anyway. Why? Because victimhood is power and money. If you can accuse a professor of rape and be paid by the University you have power over that professor and you get money.
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  • Alpha Bet
    5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for men who want to avoid false accusations.
    Reviewed in Canada on March 26, 2020
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    This book was recommended by Prof. Janice Fiamengo on the Studio Brule Youtube channel. So I read the book, and I'm glad I did. It helped me understand the culture of resentment, victimhood, and heterophobia that pervades some feminist philosophy.

    Because many university students have been systematically brainwashed with this dishonest philosophy, it has spread throughout our society. So it can be very useful to understand how these brainwashed university graduates think, and this book is a helpful guide.

    It has now been over two decades since the author first exposed the heterophobia propagated by some feminist professors. Yet the hate mongering continues -- at taxpayer expense -- because no politician or university president has put a stop to it. Why is that?
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