1st Edition
The Social Construction of Sexual Harassment Law The Role of the National, Organizational and Individual Context
By Mia Cahill
Copyright 2001
134 Pages
by
Routledge
134 Pages
by
Routledge
This title was first published in 2001. The global legal landscape is littered with attempts to provide context and meaning for sexual harassment law. Most have failed because they have limited themselves to the mere words of law. This cross-national study is the first to expand our notion of sexual harassment law and implementation by exposing the relationship between law and its social context,... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The social context of sexual harassment: the national level; Sexual harassment law in the USA and Austria; The social context of sexual harassment: managerial interpretations of the law; The national, organizational and individual levels of social context; Employee perceptions of illegal sexual harassment and employee support for punitive organizational action; Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Mia Cahill Institute for Law and Society, New York University, USA, a visiting scholar at the New York University and works in the survey division of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. a think tank in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
’...an engaging text in sociolegal classrooms, bound to provoke thought and discussion about law, social change, and social control...a great addition to sociolegal courses.’ The Law and Politics Book Review
