What is sexual harassment? The experience of Tippi Hedren
I always get a little nervous when I have to explain what sexual harassment is. Soon I hear, "It's over now! Get over it!". Victims say the opposite. The criminal courts and labour tribunals know this.
Testimonial
This weekend I read actress Tippi Hedren's autobiography published in 2016 by William Morrow (ISBN-10 0062469037)
While the victims of sexual violence in the cinema are courageously multiplying their complaints and speaking out to denounce the rapes, sexual assaults and sexual harassment committed against them, I feel it is essential to revisit the testimony of Tippi Hedren.
In her book, she accurately describes Alfred Hitchock's actions against her (go read it!). She points out that at the time, neither the terms nor the legal categories of "sexual harassment" existed. She developed strategies of evasion, avoidance, saying "no", etc. As a result, her career was impacted by her resistance to the director as she describes it.
Translation
At a time when the theories of sexual coercion (see the work of Diane Rosenfeld at Harvard Law School) and the theory of coercive violence are spreading, here is a book to be read, reread, offered, and certainly to be translated into French (it is about time !) !
