Multiple Choice Quiz

According to Crouch, most discussions about sexual harassment focus on:

sexual harassment in public places.

how sexual harassment should be legally defined.

sexual harassment in the workplace and/or academia.

how to formulate anti-harassment policies.

Crouch claims that the function and effect of all sexual harassment is to:

make women unsafe.

maintain women's subordinate position in society.

undermine women's self-confidence.

objectify women.

According to Crouch, material written on workplace and academic sexual harassment mostly focuses on:

legal technicalities like employer liability.

prevention strategies.

education and sensitivity training.

victim support.

According to Crouch, public harassment can take the form of:

comments on a woman's appearance.

unwanted touching.

lewd gestures.

all of the above.

According to Crouch, women most commonly respond to public harassment by:

confronting their harasser.

avoiding places where harassment is likely to occur.

reporting harassers to the police.

all of the above.

According to traditional views of gender, men harass women:

to assert their dominance.

to experience a sense of power.

when women violate a norm of gendered behavior.

for sexual gratification.

Crouch suggests __________ as a possible legal means of confronting public harassment.

imposing fines on harassers.

extending the Violence Against Women Act to cover public sex discrimination.

creating women-only modes of public transportation.

all of the above.

Crouch describes how some women have taken it upon themselves to address public harassment by:

forming grassroots anti-harassment organizations.

staging public protests to educate people about public harassment.

using the internet to post photographs of harassers.

all of the above.

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