Accounting for victimization: Male professors' ideological positioning in stories of sexual harassment

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 419-445

  Scarduzio, Jennifer A ^a   Geist Martin, Patricia ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hegemonic masculinity; Ideological positioning; Male victims; Sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954737741     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318909358746     Document Type: Article

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