1st Edition

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent

By Roberto Refinetti Copyright 1998
    316 Pages
    by Routledge

    309 Pages
    by Routledge

    Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent serves as a compelling forum for the analysis of ethical, cultural, social, and political issues related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior. These issues include, but are not limited to: sexual consent and sexual responsibility; sexual harassment and freedom of speech and association; sexual privacy; censorship and pornography; impact of film/literature on sexual relationships; and university and governmental regulation of intimate relationships.The premier volume deals with a central theme: sexual harassment and sexual consent, with emphasis on academia. Theoretical articles, research reports, editorials, and book reviews analyze issues from psychological, sociological, political, and artistic perspectives. Contributions include: "Eight Reasons Not to Prohibit Relationships between Professors and Students" by Peg Tittle; "The Impact of Sexual Misconduct on the Reputation of Martin Luther King, Jr." by A. B. Assensoh and Y. Alex-Assensoh; "Homosexuality, Sexual Harassment, and Military Readiness" by Deborah E. Kapp and Gary A. Kustis; " and "College Students' Perceptions of the Relationship between Sex and Drinking" by Gwendell W. Gravitt, Jr., and Mary M. Krueger.Also included are reviews of Sexual Harassment on Campus edited by B. R. Sandler and R. J. Shoop; Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture by S. B. Ortner; The Power of Beauty by N. Friday; Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America by L. Kipnis; and Mediated Sex by B. McNair. In addition, Warren Farrell reviews the film First Wives Club. This initial volume of Sexuality and Culture will be of interest to all those who participate in campus life as well as sociologists, psychologists, and government and university policymakers.

    1: Editorials; 1: Sexuality & Culture: An Interdisciplinary Annual; 2: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Consent, and Beyond; 2: Theoretical Essays; 3: Sexual Harassment in Organizations: A Critique Of Current Research and Policy; 4: Sexual Harassment Policies as all-Purpose Tools to Settle Conflicts; 5: “Academia’s Dirty Little Secret”: Deconstructing the Sexual Harassment Hysteria; 6: Forbidden Love: Student-Professor Romances; 7: On Prohibiting Relationships Between Professors and Students; 3: Empirical Essays; 8: Gender-Specific Differences in Evolved Mating “Strategies”: The Evolutionary Basis of Sexual Conflict; 9: College Students’ Perceptions of the Relationship Between Sex and Drinking; 10: Sexual Harassment on a South African University Campus: Reverberations From Apartheid; 4: Review Essays; 11: Pornography by any other Name; 12: The Making of a Social Problem: Sexual Harassment on Campus; 13: The Next Wave in Rape Law Reform: Criminalizing Bad Sex; 5: Annotated Bibliography; 14: References Examining Assaults by Women on their Spouses/Partners; 6: Book Reviews; 15: Courtship by the Book; 16: Canadian Nightmare; 17: Love, Conflict, and Marriage; 18: Pornography: A Class Struggle Defined; 19: Of Femininnies and Brutes

    Biography

    Roberto Refinetti