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Whether to Ignore Them and Spin: Moral Obligations to Resist Sexual Harassment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Carol Hay
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Abstract

In this essay, I consider the question of whether women have an obligation to confront men who sexually harass them. A reluctance to be guilty of blaming the victims of harassment, coupled with other normative considerations that tell in favor of the unfairness of this sort of obligation, might make us think that women never have an obligation to confront their harassers. But 1 argue that women do have this obligation, and it is not overridden by many of the considerations that can override other obligations to confront wrongdoers.

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Hypatia , Volume 20 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Analytic Feminism , Fall 2005 , pp. 94 - 108
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Copyright © 2005 by Hypatia, Inc.

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