ABSTRACT
Social justice movements must continually modify strategies and change course. The Hollaback! that exists today probably looks dramatically different than the Hollaback! of two, five, or even ten years from now. Like Hollaback!, the workplace harassment movement also was inspired by a powerful narrative. In 1975 in Ithaca, New York, Carmita Woods, a forty-four-year-old administrative assistant at Cornell, quit her job after becoming physically sick from the long-term stress of fighting off sexual advances. The perpetrator was a famous Nobel Prize winner. Woods and the organizers, Karen Sauvigne and Susan Meyer, expected maybe a handful of women to show up. However, 275 women came to the speak-out. Sauvigne and Meyer went on to found the Working Women's Institute, which has been credited by many in the movement to end gender-based violence for coining the term "sexual harassment". The chapter describes how it was eye opening for male friends to hear about women's street harassment experiences.
