Description
An account of an Australian sexual harassment case in which two female students filed police charges against a college official. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate about sex and power. In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate about sex and power.
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Publication
Pan Macmillan Australia (1995), 222 pages
Pages
222
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LibraryThing member mjmorrison1971
I remeber the events as background to my Honours year. I think Helen Garner gives an interesting insight into how she saw the events at Ormond College and an insight into how many of those involved were effected. It is a easy book to read and reminds us of the effect these events had in Melbourne
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Awards
BookPeople Booksellers' Choice Award (Winner — 1995)
The Age Book of the Year Award (Shortlist — Non-fiction — 1995)
Original language
English
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