Intersectionality
Chapter 2 introduces the concept of intersectionality—how gender, race, class, and other aspects of identity intersect to shape people’s experience of sexual harassment beginning with an examination of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991. It also reviews contemporary examples of the intersectionality of sex-based oppression, such as immigrant farmworker women and low-wage restaurant workers.
On this page, you will find more sources and scholarship on diverse people experience sex-based harassment and assault in various contexts.
Scholarship & Research
Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality, edited by Toni Morrison ...
Anita Hill, Speaking Truth to Power (1998) "After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to ...
Carrie N. Baker, “Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 1970s.” Feminist Studies 30, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 7-27. ...
Bernice Yeung's In A Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against American's Most Vulnerable Workers exposes the underbelly ...
Current Developments
Unstoppable Town Hall: Survivors Share Their Stories ...
Kimberlé Crenshaw, "We Still Haven’t Learned From Anita Hill’s Testimony," New York Times, September 27, 2018 ...
Films
Public Hearing, Private Pain (55 min.) explores how Clarence Thomas’s bitter Supreme Court nomination hearing, replete with charges of sexual ...
PBS Frontline: Rape in the Fields (2013) FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many ...
Kerry Washington as Anita Hill "Confirmation takes a look behind the curtain of Washington politics, depicting the explosive 1991 Clarence ...
Photo by Gage Skidmore Film that documents Anita Hill’s allegations against then- United States Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, the ...
Further Resources
Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality, edited by Toni Morrison ...
Anita Hill, Speaking Truth to Power (1998) "After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to ...
Kimberle Crenshaw, "Black Women Still In Defense of Ourselves," The Nation, October 24, 2011 ...
Bernice Yeung's In A Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against American's Most Vulnerable Workers exposes the underbelly ...
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