#MeToo is Nothing New

Even James Joyce’s Ulysses depicts workplace sexual harassment

Casey Lawrence
11 min readMar 5, 2019

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Reading Ulysses in today’s social and political climate necessarily means grappling with concepts that James Joyce could never have predicted when he first published the provocative novel in 1922. The past couple of years have been particularly revealing when it comes to the pervasiveness of workplace sexual harassment, a…

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Casey Lawrence

Canadian PhD student of English at Trinity College Dublin and author of two LGBT YA novels. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.