Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Education in Media and Literature
- Blue Angel: a novel by Francine Prose; a satire of college English and writing departments, and "politically correct" sexual harassment policies.
- Camille Claudel: true-life inspired film about the brilliant French sculptor who has a long-term affair with her teacher, Auguste Rodin.
- Wild Things: 1998 movie starring Matt Dillon, Denise Richards and Neve Campbell in where a teacher is accused of inappropriate conduct with several of his female students, which is the driving plot of the film.
- Disgrace: a novel by J. M. Coetzee about a South African literature professor whose career is ruined after he has an affair with a student.
- The History Man: novel by Malcolm Bradbury and later was a BBC television film.
- Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America: a play by Stephen Sewell in which the main character, a university professor, is accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a student, they both come to harm in the end, the professor because of his radical political ideology and the student because of her Muslim faith.
- Notes on a Scandal: a novel by Zoë Heller which depicts the sexual relationship between a married art teacher and one of her students.
- Oleanna: an American play by David Mamet, later a film starring William H. Macy. A college professor is accused of sexual harassment by a student.
- Pretty Persuasion: film starring Evan Rachel Wood and James Woods in which students turn the tables on a lecherous and bigoted teacher. A scathingly satirical film of sexual harassment and discrimination in schools, and attitudes towards females in media and society.
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: a novel by Muriel Spark, and later a play and a film starring Maggie Smith. A teacher at an Edinburgh school engineers a sexual relationship between a male colleague, and former lover, and one of her students.
- What Lies Beneath: film starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford about a woman who is haunted by the ghost of her husband's former student, whom he murdered to keep from exposing an affair between them.
- Nothing Lasts Forever (1994 novel):a novel written by Sidney Sheldon, has a female character who uses sexual harassment on her teachers and principal to woo them and get good marks in exams.
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