Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination
Telling Stories out of Court reaches readers on both an intellectual and an emotional level, helping them to think about, feel, and share the experiences of women who have faced sexism and discrimination at work. It focuses on how the federal courts interpreted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Offering insights that law texts alone cannot, the short stories collected here-all but two written for this volume-help readers concentrate on the emotional content of the experience with...
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"Few of the countless real-life stories of workplace discrimination suffered by men and women every day are ever told publicly. This book boldly and eloquently rights that wrong, going where no plaintiff testimony could ever dare because these stories are often too raw, honest, ambiguous, and nuanced to be told in court or reported in a newspaper."—from the Foreword Telling Stories out of Court reaches readers on both an intellectual and an emotional level, helping them to think about, feel, and share the experiences of women who have faced sexism and discrimination at work. It focuses on how the federal courts interpreted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Offering insights that law texts alone cannot, the short stories collected here—all but two written for this volume—help readers concentrate on the emotional content of the experience with less emphasis on the particulars of the law. Grouped into thematic parts titled "In Their Proper Place," "Unfair Treatment," "Sexual Harassment," and "Hidden Obstacles," the narratives are combined with interpretive commentary and legal analysis that anchor the book by revealing the impact this revolutionary law had on women in the workplace.At the same time, the stories succeed on their own terms as compelling works of fiction, from "LaKeesha's Job Interview," in which a woman's ambition to move from welfare to work faces an ironic obstacle, to "Plato, Again," in which a woman undergoing treatment for cancer finds her career crumble under her, to "Vacation Days," which takes the reader inside the daily routine of a nanny who works at the whim of her employer.
Foreword Liza Featherstone Featherstone, LizaIntroduction Women's Work: Writing Politics, Sharing Stories Ruth O'Brien O'Brien, Ruth 1In Their Proper Place1 Dream Man Susan Oard Warner Warner, Susan Oard 212 LaKeesha's Job Interview Bebe Moore Campbell Campbell, Bebe Moore 293 Games Women Play Achim Nowak Nowak, Achim 344 Gender Roles: Roadblocks to Equality? Risa L. Lieberwitz Lieberwitz, Risa L. 40Unfair Treatment5 Getting Even Harriet Kriegel Kriegel, Harriet 536 Trading Patients C. G. K. Atkins Atkins, C. G. K. 687 Flint Ellen Dannin Dannin, Ellen 808 Bad Intentions Risa L. Lieberwitz Lieberwitz, Risa L. 90Sexual Harassment9 Plato, Again Stephen Kuusisto Kuusisto, Stephen 11110 Be Who You Are Aurelie Sheehan Sheehan, Aurelie 11611 Hwang's Missing Hand Eileen Pollack Pollack, Eileen 13012 Sexual Harassment: Gaining Respect and Equality Risa I. Lieberwitz Lieberwitz, Risa I. 146Hidden Obstacles13 Artifact Catherine Lewis Lewis, Catherine 16114 Final Cut Kristen Iversen Iversen, Kristen 17615 Vacation Days Alice Elliott Dark Dark, Alice Elliott 19216 It's All in the Numbers: The Toll Discrimination Takes Risa L. Lieberwitz Lieberwitz, Risa L. 198Notes 213Contributors 235Index 239
\ From the Publisher"Telling Stories out of Court combines gripping fiction with expert legal commentary to expose the law and everyday realities of workplace discrimination. This unique and wonderful collection gives voice to the experience of discrimination, while simultaneously illustrating how much the law has accomplished and how much is yet to be done."-Joanna L. Grossman, Hofstra University School of Law\ \
