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Reckoning : the epic battle against sexual abuse and harassment

Summary: In the 1970s, tales of workplace harassment were prevalent. During the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, it gave 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. Hirshman delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond, as pioneering women in the media and politics exposed the links between sex and power, and the walls of male privilege finally began to crack. -- adapted from jacket

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ISBN: 1328566447
ISBN: 9781328566447
Physical Description: xviii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

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

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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: online, on campus : 2003-11 -- Roger Ailes and Donald Trump : Republicans corner the market on sex abuse : 2015-16 -- 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.