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They Don't Want Her There : Fighting Sexual and Racial Harassment in the American University /

"Before the nation learned about workplace sexual harassment from Anita Hill, and decades before the #MeToo movement, Chinese American professor Jean Y. Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit alleging a sexually hostile work environment in the College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. A young and ambi...

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Autor principal: Chalmers, Carolyn, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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