The Erotics of Torts

Authors

Carol Sanger, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

"What kind of feminist would be accused of sexual harassment?" asks Jane Gallop (p. 1). Gallop quickly provides her own challenging answer: "the sort of feminist . . . that . . . do[es] not respect the line between the intellectual and the sexual" (p. 12)." Gallop is firm and unrepentant about not respecting this line: "I sexualize the atmosphere in which I work. When sexual harassment is defined as the introduction of sex into professional relations, it becomes quite possible to be both a feminist and a sexual harasser" (p. 11). Figuring out what this means - and what its implications are for professors, for feminists, for law schools - is the task I've set for this review. I begin with a warning. As Margot Channing suggested some forty years ago, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night."

Recommended Citation

Carol Sanger, The Erotics of Torts, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1852 (1998).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol96/iss6/22