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By Frances K. Conley. 245 pp. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998. $24. ISBN 0-374-28621-3.

Few topics in the 1990s have generated as much interest or controversy as sex bias and sexual harassment. Frances K. Conley's book, Walking Out on the Boys, is likely to do both. A few months before the Senate hearing on Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court, Conley resigned from her position as a professor at Stanford University to protest what is described on the jacket of her book as "long-ingrained overt gender discrimination."

Conley's highly personal perspective provides one woman's view of academic medicine, of sexual harassment, and of institutional reactions to sexual harassment. It may make some readers . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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