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AdvocateWeb : Helping Overcome Professional Exploitation
http://www.advocateweb.org/hope2/index.php
A non-profit organization providing support to people who have suffered sexual exploitation, harassment, or abuse by a helping professional.  AdvocateWeb provides free resources for victims, survivors, and their families, friends, victim advocates, and professionals.

Information on Sexual Harassment
http://www.de2.psu.edu/harassment/
This Web page on sexual harassment invites you to explore the concept of sexual harassment interactively from a variety of perspectives. The information collected on this Web page should enable you to define sexual harassment, and know your legal rights and appropriate procedures if you are harassed.  Web sites and an annotated bibliography provide additional resources.

911 for Women -- Sexual Harassment
http://www.feminist.org/911/harass.html
This site provides links to sexual harassment state hotlines, national hotlines for victims and resources that tell you what to do in sexual harassment situations.

Nolo.com : Fighting Sexual Harassment
http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/objectID/0E020B2A-F7D9-40C2-AB52398DFAAFDC6F/104/150/175/ART/
Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia, a commercial site, has frequently asked questions about sexual harassment, information about harassment and men, what to do when the boss is perpetrator, what happens when businesses purposely ignore harassment, Supreme Court Decisions and same-sex harassment.

Sexual Harassment : It's Not Academic
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/ocrshpam.html?exp=0
This excellent pamphlet by the Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, defines and describes sexual harassment as it pertains to students. Interspersed with the information are quotes from victims that help illustrate the consequences of harassment

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/vii.html
This site contains the actual text from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, from the EEOC.

Online Databases (Rio Hondo Students only)    top
The following Rio Hondo College Library online databases my contain material relevant to sexual harassment.  Databases may include magazine, newspaper and journal articles.  Off-campus users please note: you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty or staff member to sue these services.

Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com
Try searching for "sexual harassment" or construct your own search in this database to find current, in depth information.

PsycARTICLES
Try searching for "sexual harassment" or construct your own search in this database to find current, in depth information.

Books     top
The following books can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library.

Reference Books (2nd floor)
Non-circulating:

Handbook of the psychology of women and gender
Call number: Ref HQ1206.H2385 2001

Sex, youth, and sex education : a reference handbook (Contemporary education issues)
Call number: Ref HQ57.5.A3C36 2002

Sexual harassment (Current controversies)
Call number: Ref HQ1206.S454 1999

Sexual harassment : a reference handbook (Contemporary world issues)
Call number: Ref KF4758.E36 1997

Women in the military (At issue) (Opposing viewpoints series)
Call number: Ref UB418.W65W6724 2004

Women's rights (Contemporary issues companion)
Call number: Ref HQ1236.W65265 2003

Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the following Library of Congress subject headings:

Sex discrimination in employment

Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment of women

Women and the military

WebCat     top
Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo College Library.

Media     top
The following media can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library, to be viewed in the Library.

You are the game : sexual harassment on campus
Call number: Video 000785
Presents dramatizations of two types of sexual harassment found in the academic setting, followed by a panel discussion featuring national experts.

Articles   top
The Rio Hondo College Library provides online access to full-text articles through our online databases.  Please note:  you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.

The sample searches and articles below are from the ProQuest database.  If you are viewing this subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the links below.   To gain access if you are at home or off-campus, first click here: https://rioweb.rh.cc.ca.us/library/.  Input your student ID number and password [your birthdate].  You will see a list of  all the online databases to which you have access.  Click on ProQuest and enter the database.  You may conduct your own searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and click on any of the links below:

(sexual harassment) [from Scholarly Journals only]
SUB(sexual harassment) AND SUB(men) AND (victims)
SUB(sexual harassment) AND SUB(women) AND SUB(attitudes)
SUB(sexual harassment) AND SUB(universities)

Researched and evaluated by:
M. Hogarth, Librarian 9/1999
last update: T. Shabelnik, Librarian 6/2007

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