[Ads-l] Even Earlier Antedating of "Sexual Harassment"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I have previously antedated the term "sexual harassment" back to 1971; my citation is now listed as the earliest use in the Oxford English Dictionary.


Here is an even earlier antedating, although arguably the OED should place it in square brackets because it is further from being a fixed collocation than the citations I have found from the early 1970s, and has a somewhat different meaning from the later usage:


1966 Joseph Shiu-Ming Lau _Ts'ao Yu, the Reluctant Disciple of Chekhov and O'Neill: A Study in Literary Influence_ (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University) 69 (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global)  Even Ch'ou Hu's sister, a little girl of fifteen, was not spared; she was sold to a brothel where she finally hanged herself for not being able to stand the brutality of sexual harassment.


Fred Shapiro







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