REVIEW: The Women’s Movement Against Sexual Harassment

Abstract

Reviews the book, The Women’s Movement Against Sexual Harassment by Carrie N. Baker (2008). This book offers a dense and meticulously researched narrative on the origins of mobilization against sexual harassment in the United States. It also delineates the growth of the movement against sexual harassment and highlights the key role not just of the emerging second wave feminism, but of organized women workers going on strike to fight sexual harassment. One of the main assets of this book is that it constructs the feminist movement of the 1970s not, as many have come to believe, as a white upper-middle-class movement. If one wants to get a sense of the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and of how mobilization develops within a specific political opportunity structure, this is the book to read. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)