A ground-breaking and exhilarating work.  Despite the ultimate triumph of these two feminist pioneers, their stories are sobering examples of norms that continue to the present day.  We need their inspiring model of resistance.  

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Sara M. Evans, Regents Professor Emerita, author of Tidal Wave:  How Women Changed America at Century's End (2003) and Born for Liberty:  A History of Women in America.

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You don’t need to be an activist lawyer or familiar with maddening academic infighting to be captured by Carolyn Chalmers’ compelling narrative about Jean Jew’s righteous battle with her colleagues and university. This is a must read to learn about a groundbreaking workplace sexual harassment case.  

 

Jay Weiner, author of Professor Berman (2019), This Is NOT Florida (2010), and Stadium Games (2000).

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They Don't Want Her There offers a critically important window into law, lawyering, and rights consciousness in the early years of legal recognition of sexual harassment.  The state of the law alone makes this an important account, but it is the relationship -- two extraordinary professional women, medical scientist and lawyer, each brilliant in their own craft and part of the first generation of women in their fields, collaborating in pursuit of justice -- that make this account essential reading for all who care about justice today.

 

Barbara Young Welke, Professor, University of Minnesota, author of Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States (2010), and Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (2001).

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Thank you for sharing your engrossing, well-told story ... a great job of braiding the history of sexual harassment in the workplace, your U of I cases, and your and Jean's relationship.  My feedback is from the perspective of a daughter of later Chinese immigrants.

 

Rosann Tung, Boston-based educator and writer

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Let me just say, this manuscript has moved me beyond measure. I tell everyone I can about it, and ask colleagues across campus if they have heard Jean's story. Just incredible, both of you! And the way you write makes things so personal and relatable. Just amazing.

 

Susan Hill Newton, Managing Editor, University of Iowa Press