Speaking Truth to Power - Rilegato

Hill, Anita

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ISBN 10: 0385476256 ISBN 13: 9780385476256

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1997

Riassunto

After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figure at the white-hot center of an intense national debate on how men and women relate to each other in the workplace. That debate led to groundbreaking court decisions and major shifts in corporate policies that have had a profound effect on our lives - and on Anita Hill's life. Now, with remarkable insight and total candor, Anita Hill reflects on events before, during, and after the hearings, offering for the first time a complete account that sheds startling new light on this watershed event.
Here is a vitally important work that allows us to understand why Anita Hill did what she did, and thereby brings resolution to one of the most controversial episodes in our nation's history.

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Recensione

My world has been forever changed by the events that culminated in the "Hill-Thomas hearing" six years ago.  I am no longer an anonymous, private individual, and my name has become synonymous with sexual harassment.  To many I represent the courage to come forward and disclose a painful truth--a courage which thousands of others have found for themselves since the hearings.  To others I represent the debasement of the public forum, at best a pawn, at worst a perjurer.

But I am no longer content to leave the assessment to others, for they cannot know what I experienced--what I felt, saw, heard, and thought.  Whatever others may say, I must address these questions for myself.  I did not choose the issue of sexual harassment; it chose me.  And, having been chosen, I have come to believe that it is up to me to try and give meaning to it all.

--Anita Hill

L'autore

Anita F. Hill served, until 1997, on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma College of Law in Norman, Oklahoma.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385476256
• ISBN 13: 9780385476256
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 374