ABSTRACT
In contrast, the case of Jane Gallop, a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, represents the antithesis of the stereotypical case—the exceptional case. Feminism has a special relation to sexual harassment. One could say in fact that feminism invented harassment. Taking the way in which feminism and gender are implicated in the historical development of sexual harassment as a commendable and embraceable given, Gallop then warns against what she sees as the “rampant expansion of the concept of sexual harassment”. University administrators, who piously intone against teacher-student sex, citing the student’s impossibility to freely grant consent, would be shocked if they knew their position was based in a critique of the institution of marriage. Finally, Gallop argues that bans against consensual relationships and other efforts to desexualize higher education are antithetical to good teaching.
