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...female employee is dismissed because of seduction and continues to harass her former employer, she may be charged with harassment properly--but this situation lies outside the sphere of Mansfield's very specific concern with sexual favors used expressly to advance one's career...
...book chronicles the evolution of the concept of boredom in England from the 18th century to the present, drawing its conclusions from close-readings of personal records (ie. correspondence, memoirs, diaries) and canonical works of fiction. Spacks limits her sphere of investigation to a boredom understood as "the kind that appears to be caused by not having enough to do, or not liking the things one has to do, or existing with other people or, in a setting one finds distasteful," that is, she disregards boredom as symptom of depression, anger, anxiety, or other malaise. She focuses on the upper...
Though the exact wording is still being hashed out, the amendment will attempt to reinforce freedom for religious activity in the public sphere. "The purpose should not be to promote religion in general or Christianity in particular," says University of Chicago law professor Michael McConnell, an adviser to the cause. "The purpose should be to ensure that religious citizens and religious speech are permitted to play a role in American life equal to any other ideology, philosophy, or persuasion...
...sexual fantasy turns into sexual abuse. Catharine MacKinnon, author of Only Words and a professor at the law school, is the nation's foremost proponent of the theory that writing and reading pornography are in themselves acts of violence; that consumers of it end up, depending on their "chosen sphere of operation," raping, abusing or discriminating against women. MacKinnon immediately seized on Baker's case. "What he wrote constitutes libel, sexual harassment and is a violation of privacy," she says. "We need a law that addresses what is done to women through pornography...
Helpful, but not too helpful, thank you. She's not planning on applying her theoretic knowledge in the practical sphere any time soon, not that it hasn't been suggested to her before. While teaching a seminar on mystery writing in a high security prison, she was approached by a convicted murderer. "We should work together," he said. "You've got the talent, but I've got the experience...