Pervasive Vulnerabilities explores the beliefs attitudes and behaviors of adolescent girls
and boys and female teachers in order to expose the continuing persistence of sexual harassment
in the United States. The book addresses the sexual double standard that continues to hold
girls and women accountable for male sexual aggression and demonstrates that this double
standard still dismisses males who harass young women with a cavalier «boys will be boys»
attitude while castigating young women if they express an interest in sexual expression. It
discusses issues of sexual harassment through four domains: its impact on women's lives
sometimes long after high school the perceptions of teachers who interact with adolescents
the experiences of young girls in middle and high school and the behaviors and attitudes of
young men in middle and high school. This book is critical reading for all pre-service and
in-service teachers and is indispensable in classrooms devoted to the topic.
