Author: Anita Hill

Anita Hill is a professor of social policy, law, and women's, gender and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. Her most recent book, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence analyzes the history of gender violence in the U.S. and addresses her experience in exposing Justice Clarence Thomas's pattern of sexual harassment.
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Anita Hill Sizes Up Sexual Harassment in ‘The Nature of the Beast’ (Jan/Feb 1992)

From the Jan/Feb 1992 issue:

“The response to my Senate Judiciary Committee testimony has been at once heartwarming and heart-wrenching. In learning that I am not alone in experiencing harassment, I am also learning that there are far too many women who have experienced a range of inexcusable and illegal activities—from sexist jokes to sexual assault—on the job.”