Document Type
Article
Publication Title
NWSA Journal
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date
Summer 2009
First Page
171
Last Page
195
Issue Number
2
Volume Number
21
Abstract/ Summary
In this essay, a university professor tells the story of her sexual harassment by her graduate school adviser in order to explain the institutional cultures and structures that exist to perpetuate this type of behavior in higher education as well as to communicate the steps she took to create change and accept the events that occurred. Characterizing the documentation as a “coming out process,” she describes the events that occurred from 2002–2006, using a semi-autoethnographical approach augmented with document and literature analyses. The essay goes beyond a mere re-telling of the events to an analysis of the cultural constructs that foster sexual harassment at institutions of higher education.
Repository Citation
Gardner, Susan K., "Coming Out of the Sexual Harassment Closet: One Woman's Story of Politics and Change in Higher Education" (2009). Higher Education Faculty Scholarship. 1.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/hed_facpub/1
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Gardner, S. (2009). Coming out of the Sexual Harassment Closet: One Woman's Story of Politics and Change in Higher Education. NWSA Journal, 21(2), 171-195.
Publisher Statement
©2009 NWSA Journal
Version
post-print (i.e. final draft post-refereeing with all author corrections and edits)
Rights Statement
