According to Judge Susan Webber Wright, President Clinton's alleged
behavior toward Paula Jones, even if "boorish and offensive, " did
not constitute sexual harassment because he had taken "no" for an
answer. Democrats and feminists argue that President Clinton's
alleged lies in the Jones case were 'just about sex" and therefore
insignificant.
In a passionate defense of the rights of sexually harassed
women, Gwendolyn Mink warns that Judge Wright and the president's
supporters have undermined our sexual harassment laws. Hostile
Environment is her provocative account of the harm being done to
these laws and her warning that the laws themselves are worthless
if, as in the current political climate, few women dare to use
them.
Mink provides a lucid analysis of sexual harassment as a legal
concept and corrects many common misapprehensions. She also
develops a stringent critique of feminist responses to allegations
that the president lied in the Jones case. Throughout the book, she
emphasizes the significance of power in sexual harassment. "Power
is always the harasser's aphrodisiac, " Mink argues. "Harassers may
use power to coerce sex; or they may use sex to exert power.... The
sex in sexual harassment is never 'just about sex' but always about
power."
Sometimes scathing, always astute, Hostile Environment is also a
highly personal book. Mink describes her own experience of sexual
harassment as a graduate student -- the violation and fear, then
the betrayal when faculty and fellow students sought to discredit
and dismiss her account.
First-hand knowledge of the injuries caused by sexual harassment
and its aftermath has left Mink with an abiding interest in this
volatile issue andwith a desire to safeguard the rights of sexually
harassed women -- especially the most economically vulnerable among
them.
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