Gwendolyn Mink is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942, and Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920, both from Cornell.

Hostile Environment defends the rights of sexually harassed women and explores the ways in which the current administration, political climate, and legal system are undermining sexual harassment laws—especially as few women dare to use them.(Feminist Bookstore News) Hostile Environment provides a solid legal history of sexual harassment. It also offers a truly stunning indictment of how feminists and others threatened to turn sexual harassment into a completely trivial offense both by betraying 'trailer trash' Paula Jones and by effectively raising the bar for what constitutes 'genuine' harassment during the Clinton impeachment episode. The book also contains a horrifying description of Mink's own experiences of sexual harassment as a grad student at Cornell.(H-Labor Listserve) A lucid and interesting history of sexual harassment law; recommended for academic and large public collections.(Library Journal) Mink, in a scathing rebuke to Clinton's feminist supporters, charges that they raised the politcal and legal thresholds for taking sexual harassment seriously and so undermined those laws that women may not use them in the future.... Here is a logical, passionate, and provocative answer to one of that era's most puzzling questions.... This is a valuable resource for all collections.(Choice)

Gwendolyn Mink is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942, and Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920, both from Cornell.

Hostile Environment defends the rights of sexually harassed women and explores the ways in which the current administration, political climate, and legal system are undermining sexual harassment laws—especially as few women dare to use them.(Feminist Bookstore News) Hostile Environment provides a solid legal history of sexual harassment. It also offers a truly stunning indictment of how feminists and others threatened to turn sexual harassment into a completely trivial offense both by betraying 'trailer trash' Paula Jones and by effectively raising the bar for what constitutes 'genuine' harassment during the Clinton impeachment episode. The book also contains a horrifying description of Mink's own experiences of sexual harassment as a grad student at Cornell.(H-Labor Listserve) A lucid and interesting history of sexual harassment law; recommended for academic and large public collections.(Library Journal) Mink, in a scathing rebuke to Clinton's feminist supporters, charges that they raised the politcal and legal thresholds for taking sexual harassment seriously and so undermined those laws that women may not use them in the future.... Here is a logical, passionate, and provocative answer to one of that era's most puzzling questions.... This is a valuable resource for all collections.(Choice)

Gwendolyn Mink is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942, and Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920, both from Cornell.

Hostile Environment defends the rights of sexually harassed women and explores the ways in which the current administration, political climate, and legal system are undermining sexual harassment laws—especially as few women dare to use them.(Feminist Bookstore News) Hostile Environment provides a solid legal history of sexual harassment. It also offers a truly stunning indictment of how feminists and others threatened to turn sexual harassment into a completely trivial offense both by betraying 'trailer trash' Paula Jones and by effectively raising the bar for what constitutes 'genuine' harassment during the Clinton impeachment episode. The book also contains a horrifying description of Mink's own experiences of sexual harassment as a grad student at Cornell.(H-Labor Listserve) A lucid and interesting history of sexual harassment law; recommended for academic and large public collections.(Library Journal) Mink, in a scathing rebuke to Clinton's feminist supporters, charges that they raised the politcal and legal thresholds for taking sexual harassment seriously and so undermined those laws that women may not use them in the future.... Here is a logical, passionate, and provocative answer to one of that era's most puzzling questions.... This is a valuable resource for all collections.(Choice)