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 Class
Action:
The Story of
Lois Jenson and
the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law
By Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler
Doubleday
$27.50, 400 pages
Synopsis
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the book from Amazon
- Buy a signed copy
NEWS:
Warner Brothers Pictures has optioned Class
Action and is currently in active development on a
feature film inspired by the book. Screenwriter Michael Seitzman (Here On Earth, Angel Eyes) is
writing
the screenplay, with Nick Wechsler and Industry Entertainment (The 25th Hour, Quills, Requiem For A Dream)
producing. Clara Bingham is providing consulting services for the film.
PRAISE:
Solicited
David Halberstam says Class Action is "fascinating and chilling,
with powerful echoes of Silkwood."
Unsolicited
Named one the Los Angeles Times' Best 100 Books of 2002: "Piecing
together Lois Jenson's ordeal with the pacing of a novel, the authors
engage the reader from the outset; we are outraged by the behavior of
particular men, incredulous that the mining company could consistently
turn a blind eye, certain that a resolution must be on the horizon and
then unbelieving that something so evident could take so long to
rectify."
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[Excerpt from the book]
Day One: The Mine, March 1975
As Lois Jenson and her new coworker Clarence Mattson walked
the fifty yards uphill to the main building of the Forbes Fairlane
Plant, they were quickly joined by dozens of men. Most of them were
streaming out of the building, dirty and tired after working the
midnight shift at the mine; the rest were arriving to punch in for the
day, and most of them were staring at her. Lois was twenty-seven years
old, with shoulder-length wavy blond hair, blue eyes, and pale, clear
skin--a Scandinavian beauty with a slender waist and an elegant long
neck. She was used to feeling men's eyes upon her, but these men seemed
different--almost as if they had never seen a woman before.
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[Interview with the authors]
The price of setting a
precedent
Lois Jenson's grueling and often cruel experience over 20
years of litigation reminds the reader that members of civil-rights
class action suits rarely benefit personally. In fact, they usually pay
a giant personal price.
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