Revisiting Sexual Harassment in Academe: Using Feminist Ethical and Sensemaking Approaches to Analyze Macrodiscourses and Micropractices of Sexual Harassment
In late spring 2001, I guest lectured in a women's studies class about gender and the workplace. The students and I analyzed a Wall Street Journal article about teasing, attractiveness, and young (presumably white, heterosexual, middle-class, able-bodied) women's career success. The columnist, Pollock (2000), suggested that women could act stereotypically feminine in the workplace because women have achieved both equality with men and critical mass in managerial and professional occupations. She also wrote that some men feel as though women are behaving in a sexually harassing ...