a comparative study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany
First Statement of Responsibility
Kathrin S. Zippel.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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XVIII, 255 p. : table ; 24 cm
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Sexual harassment and gender equality; 2. Equality through litigation: sexual harassment in the United States; 3. Diffusion through supranational actors: sexual harassment in the European Union; 4. The political path of adoption: feminists and the German state; 5. 'Good Behavior Versus Mobbing': employer practices in Germany and the United States; 6. Social movements, institutions, and the politics of sexual harassment; Conclusion.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Zippel traces how policies to deter sexual harassment have been taken up as a goal by political actors in both Germany and the US: grass-roots and legal activists, policy-makers and legislators, and then employers and union officials.