Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill

Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill

Twenty-six years before the #metoo movement, Anita Hill sparked a national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace.

After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figure at the white-hot center of an intense national debate on how men and women relate to each other in the workplace. That debate led to ground-breaking court decisions and major shifts in corporate policies that have had a profound effect on our lives--and on Anita Hill's life. Now, with remarkable insight and total candor, Anita Hill reflects on events before, during, and after the hearings, offering for the first time a complete account that sheds startling new light on this watershed event.

Only after reading her moving recollection of her childhood on her family's Oklahoma farm can we fully appreciate the values that enabled her to withstand the harsh scrutiny she endured during the hearings and for years afterward. Only after reading her detailed narrative of the Senate Judiciary proceedings do we reach a new understanding of how Washington--and the media--rush to judgment. And only after discovering the personal toll of this wrenching ordeal, and how Hill copes, do we gain new respect for this extraordinary woman.

Here is a vitally important work that allows us to understand why Anita Hill did what she did, and thereby brings resolution to one of the most controversial episodes in our nation's history.

Anita F. Hill is a Brandeis University professor of social policy, law, and women's studies, where she offers courses on race and the law as well as gender equality. She worked as an attorney-advisor to Clarence Thomas at the United States Supreme Court after getting her JD from Yale Law School in 1980. The Department of Education is in charge of education. She testified during Clarence Thomas' Senate confirmation hearings in 1991. When her charges of sexual harassment were made public, she earned national attention.

She is the author of, in which she discusses her time as a witness in the Thomas hearings. Reimagining Equality: Tales of Gender, Race, and Finding Home is her first book. Hill has published articles about race and gender in the New York Times, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Critical Race Feminism, and other media. She's been on Today, 60 Minutes, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation, among other shows.

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ISBN 13	9780385476270
ISBN 10	0385476272
Title	Speaking Truth to Power
Author	Anita Hill
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1998-10-20
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.