This deeply personal memoir of a pioneering sexual harassment case reveals just how recently women's rights have been won - and at what cost.

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Before the nation first learned about sexual harassment from Anita Hill and decades before the #metoo movement, Jean Y. Jew M.D., a Chinese American professor in the College of Medicine, brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against the University of Iowa. Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer.

 

In the face of a university indifferent to Jean’s injuries and then determined to defeat her, these two women pursued a landmark civil-rights battle at the dawn of sexual harassment law. The professional, academic workplace; the combination of sex, race and ethnic discrimination; and their extraordinary relationship, make this account deeply compelling. 

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They Don't Want Her There will be published April 2022 by the University of Iowa Press. To order:  uipress.uiowa.edu/books.