“They Don’t Want Her There is a powerful and infuriating story of sexual harassment in a prominent medical school leading to a series of riveting courtroom dramas. Chalmers leads us through the courtroom challenges of sexual harassment at a time when there was very little legal precedent to draw upon. Her own story, as a young, deeply committed feminist lawyer, broadens the human dimension of this storied and exhilarating work.”—Sara M. Evans, author, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End
“A critically important window into law, lawyering, and rights consciousness in the early years of legal recognition of sexual harassment. The state of the law alone makes this an important account, but it is the relationship—two professional women, medical scientist and lawyer, collaborating in pursuit of justice—that makes this account essential reading for all who care about justice today.”—Barbara Young Welke, author, Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States
“You don’t need to be an activist lawyer or familiar with maddening academic infighting to be captured by Carolyn Chalmers’s compelling narrative about Jean Jew’s righteous battle with her colleagues and university. This is a must-read to learn about a pivotal workplace sexual harassment case.”—Jay Weiner, author, Professor Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian