11. 11Tanya Kateri Hernandez, “ ‘What Not to Wear’—Race and Unwelcomeness in Sexual Harassment Law: The Story of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson” in Women and Law Stories, Elizabeth M. Schneider and Stephanie M. Wilman, eds. (New York: Foundation Press, 2011), 288.
12. 12Quoted in Strebeigh, Equal, 256–7.
16. 16Quoted in Victoria T. Bartels, “Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson: The Supreme Court’s Recognition of the Hostile Environment in Sexual Harassment Claims,” Akron Law Review 20 (1987), 577.
19. 19Much of the description of Vinson’s case in the Federal District Court is taken from Augustus B. Cochran III, Sexual Harassment and the Law: The Mechelle Vinson Case (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004), Chapter 3.
20. 20A number of sources detail Vinson’s claims about Taylor’s harassment. In addition to Cochran, one can consult Baker, Women’s Movement, 162–3; Strebeigh, Equal, 259–66.
21. 21Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
22. 22Descriptions of the Court of Appeals ruling, Vinson v. Taylor, 753 F.2d 141 (D.C. Cir. 1985) are included in Strebeigh, Equal, 274–6; Cochran, Sexual Harassment and the Law, 82–6; Baker, Women’s Movement, 164.
23. 23Quoted in Cochran, Sexual Harassment and the Law, 82.
27. 27Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson.
28. 28Thomas, Because of Sex, 98.
29. 29Baker, Women’s Movement, 165.
30. 30Patricia J. Barry and Catharine A. MacKinnon, Brief of Respondent Mechelle Vinson in Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson, February 11, 1986, in Catharine A. MacKinnon, Butterfly Politics (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2017), 65.
35. 35Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson.