Sexual Harassment and the Law: The Mechelle Vinson Case (Paperback)

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Iii Augustus B Cochran

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Title Vll of the 1964 Civil Rights Act may have outlawed sex discrimination, but it did not address the sexual harassment of women in the workplace--behavior that courts did not deem illegal until well into the era of the modern civil rights and women's movements. Mechelle Vinson's lawsuit against her employer, "Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986), changed all of that. Adopting the legal theory pioneered by feminist Catharine MacKinnon that sexual harassment was indeed discriminatory, the Supreme Court's opinion, authored by one of the most conservative justices, brought the problem of sexual harassment into the spotlight and placed power relations between men and women at work squarely on the public agenda. Plaintiff Vinson claimed that she had submitted to the unwanted sexual advances of her supervisor in order to hold onto her job. Although her supervisor denied her charges and the bank he worked for disavowed any knowledge of misbehavior, her suit finally reached the Supreme Court after six years of litigation, where a unanimous Court determined that the creation of a "hostile work environment" through sexual harassment was a form of sex discrimination--and that such harassment could be actionable even without economic injury to the plaintiff. Augustus Cochran reexamines the origins, contexts, and impact of this landmark decision and introduces readers to the main actors in the drama: bank teller Vinson, her boss and alleged harasser, and a changing cast of jurists. Cochran traces the case from the lower court's ruling in favor of the bank through the appellate stage overturning that ruling to the Supreme Court's holding that sexual harassment violates Title VII. He analyzes thedecision's contentious legacy, charting the course of issues raised in the case--hostile environment, unwelcomeness, employer liability--as they have played out in later cases. He also examines new and related legal developments since 1986 and explores the opinions of those who think the laws have gone too far, and of others who think they haven't gone far enough. The Supreme Court's ruling has had far-reaching implications in the workplace and also influenced such high-profile controversies as the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, the Tailhook scandal, and the Clinton impeachment. In telling this story, Cochran has written a definitive work on sexual harassment and the law that will fascinate and inform all concerned with equal rights and the empowerment of women.

About the Author :

Iii Augustus B Cochran has contributed to Sexual Harassment and the Law: The Mechelle Vinson Case as an author. Cochran, a lifelong southerner, was born in Athens, Georgia, received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a professor of politicial science at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. He also has a law degree and is associated with a labor law firm in Atlanta.

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Title: Sexual Harassment and the Law: The Mechelle Vinson Case
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Iii Augustus B Cochran
Edition: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN:

0700613234

EAN:

9780700613236

No. of Pages: 227
Publish Date: 2004-04-30
Binding: Paperback
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