Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire (Society and the Sexes in the Modern World)
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300118996 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great text Tara F. Sex and the Office by Julie Berebitsky is not only an interesting read but an enlightening one. She moves chronologically through the history of sexism and harassment in the workplace, and she takes a keen interest in noting how sexism/sexual harassment in the workplace affected African-American women specifically, and how the struggles were different for different women. Moreover, she discusses the classism inherent in the office environment, and how an association of unions to manual labor prevented many office workers to join unions. Overall, a great read.
Treasury office. Berebitsky recounts the actual experiences of female and male office workers; draws on archival sources ranging from the records of investigators looking for waste in government offices during World War II to the personal papers of Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem; and explores how popular sources—including cartoons, advertisements, advice guides, and a wide array of fictional accounts—have represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances. This range of evidence and the study’s long scope expose both notable transformations and startling continuities in the interplay of gender, power and desire at work.. In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the w
“Sex and the Office brings critical new historical insight to the sexual culture of the white-collar office. Culling an impressive array of sources, Berebitsky explores gendered office practices, including men asking employment agencies for ‘pretty blondes,’ women using sex with ‘superiors’ to supplement their wages, alienation-of-affection lawsuits waged by wives of adulterous bosses, and feminist attempts to name and address sexual harassment. A rich, important read.”—Jennifer Scanlon, author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown