Tailhook and the Construction of Sexual Harassment in the Media

“Rowdy Navy Boys” and Women Who Made a Difference

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ID12436980
AuthorsRenee Goldsmith Kasinsky (University of Massachusetts Lowell, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume4
Issue1
Pages81-99
Publication date1998-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801298004001006
OpenAlexW2114207071
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited4

By examining the reporting of the Tailhook incident in the mainstream media, from the event itself through the conclusion of military and congressional debates about its meaning 5 years later, this article demonstrates that the media construct representations that are in accordance with the dominant gender ideology. The military's interpretation of Tailhook—“boys will be boys” with “party girls”—was contested by the women who were harassed and assaulted. Although the military's cover-up of the incident was interrupted by the intervention of powerful women in the Senate, media coverage reinforced the dominant view of sexual harassment

Construct (python library · Criminology · Harassment · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Mainstream · Meaning (existential · Media coverage · Media studies · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Computer Science · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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