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Sexual harassment is an issue in which feminists are usually thought to be on the plaintiff’s side. But in 1993—amid considerable attention from the national academic community—Jane Gallop, a prominent feminist professor of literature, was accused of sexual harassment by two of her women graduate students. In __Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment__, Gallop tells the story of how and why she was charged with sexual harassment and what resulted from the accusations. Weaving together memoir and theoretical reflections, Gallop uses her dramatic personal experience to offer a vivid analysis of current trends in sexual harassment policy and to pose difficult questions regarding teaching and sex, feminism and knowledge. Comparing “still new” feminism—as she first encountered it in the early 1970s—with the more established academic discipline that women’s studies has become, Gallop makes a case for the intertwining of learning and pleasure. Refusing to acquiesce to an imperative of silence that surrounds such issues, Gallop acknowledges—and describes—her experiences with the eroticism of learning and teaching. She argues that antiharassment activism has turned away from the feminism that

Who reads Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (Public Planet Books)?

Author

Jane Gallop; Project Muse

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822396741

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Self Help, Education

Rating

2.88 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14