TY - JOUR PY - 2006// TI - "I'm Not Thinking of It as Sexual Harassment" JO - Gender and society A1 - Huntley, Audrey A1 - MacQuarrie, Barbara A1 - Carr, Jacquie A1 - Welsh, Sandy SP - 87 EP - 107 VL - 20 IS - 1 N2 - How do diverse groups of women in Canada define sexual harassment? To answer this question requires incorporating race and citizenship into the analysis of sexual harassment. The authors use data from seven focus groups of Canadian women. The white women with full citizenship rights most easily identify with existing legal understandings of sexual harassment and believe they have the right to report their harassment. For women of color and women without full citizenship rights, issues of racialized sexual harassment emerge as central factors in their harassment experience. Black women with full citizenship rights call into question whether the term sexual harassment captures their experiences. Filipinas working as live-in caregivers on limited visas demonstrate how racism and lack of citizenship changes definitions of sexual harassment. Their experiences of harassment combine elements of isolation due to their lack of citizenship, racialized sexual harassment, and abuse. The authors argue that intersectional analyses are needed to understand women's harassment experiences and their ability to complain and seek legal recourse.

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