The lecherous professor : sexual harassment on campus
Billie Wright Dziech, Linda Weiner (Author)
Sexual harassment of college students by their professors is a fact of campus life that many educators learn to ignore and, in their silence, to accept. We wrote this book about sexual harassment because our experiences revealed that the silence is part of the problem, that ignoring the issue only makes it worse. Over the years, we gradually realized that we could no longer disregard the confusion and fear in the faces of women who asked us to explain and prevent something we ourselves did not understand. When we began discussing sexual harassment in 1977, we had more curiosity than information. We knew only what it felt like to watch women's agony. People were just beginning to think and talk about the issue then, and few took it seriously. Definitions and data were sparse; there was a curious complacency on the campus, a reluctance to regard rumblings from the workplace and government as anything but sound and fury. We decided to study sexual harassment because it is part of what it means to be a woman and a professional, and we wrote the book as much for ourselves as for the students and the institution we hope to help
Print Book, English, 1984
Beacon Press, Boston, 1984