Conceptualizing Sexual Harassment as Discursive Practice: - Hardcover

Bingham, Shereen G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275945936 ISBN 13: 9780275945930

Publisher: Praeger, 1994

Synopsis

This is an interdisciplinary approach to sexual harassment that examines the meaning of concepts such as discourse, power, ideology, sexuality, and abuse. The essays explore discursive practice as a way of understanding sexual harassment, how it is normalized and sustained, how it may be contested and challenged, and how it may be studied. In giving voice to discursive frameworks and encouraging debate among authors with differing ideas, Bingham provides readers with a rich array of viewpoints and readings to consider in their own thinking about sexual harassment, both as a social practice and as a topic of research. Rather than attempting to provide resolution or draw conclusions, this volume challenges scholars to begin the process of re-forming conceptual perspectives for sexual harassment research and activism. Although questioning our understandings of sexual harassment and discursiveness is unsettling and difficult, it is necessary in order to instigate change in both ourselves as social actors and in our research of human behavior.

About this title

Book Description

An interdisciplinary approach to sexual abuse that examines the meaning of concepts such as discourse, power, ideology, sexuality, and harassment from the point of view of communication, psychology, sociology, education, and women's studies.

About the Author

SHEREEN G. BINGHAM is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has published frequently on managing sexual harassment in the workplace.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0275945936
• ISBN 13: 9780275945930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224