A. Sexual
harassment [review]
1. history
2. extent
3. defined: quid pro quo or condition of work
4. legal responses and limits
B. "incest"
- the sexual abuse of children
1. Rush, "best kept secret"
extent
age and gender hierarchies
personal costs
2. Why silence?
role of Freudian theory 1920s-1970s
difficulty of children reporting
under reporting
suppressed memory; controversy over false memory
3. feminist analysis
Judith Herman on paternal dominance and maternal
roles
Florence rush on eroticization of children
daughters and resistance
4. feminist response
naming, survivor groups, services, sex. ed.
C. domestic
violence
1. Historical context : from patriarchal right to marital cruelty
Class and race stereotypes
2. Extent - see Web data too
U.S., California
Brazil, Asia
3. feminist analysis
Cross class
Economic dependency
4. feminist response
Naming, public protests
services [shelters]
Legal reforms: police and courts