“Knocking off a Fat Girl:” an Exploration of Hogging, Male Sexuality, and Neutralizations

Gailey, Jeannine A.; Prohaska, Ariane

doi:10.1080/016396290968353

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“…2009). Bridging this conceptual research divide will build understandings of SH in the context of more general ‘cultural misogyny’ (Gailey and Prohaska 2006, p. 31) which sanctions destructive workplace behaviours and undermines broader equal opportunity in employment goals. Such research could also inform institution‐wide conversations beyond the limits of formal policies, which are necessary to determine how behaviours are defined (legally, ethically, institutionally and personally) in the organization, how it should be addressed, and the implications for ignoring or normalizing it (Wear et al .…”

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Workplace Sexual Harassment 30 Years on: A Review of the Literature

McDonald¹

2011

Int J Management Reviews

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Despite its proscription in legal jurisdictions around the world, workplace sexual harassment (SH) continues to be experienced by many women and some men in a variety of organizational settings. The aims of this review article are threefold: first, with a focus on workplace SH as it pertains to management and organizations, to synthesize the accumulated state of knowledge in the field; second, to evaluate this evidence, highlighting competing perspectives; and third, to canvass areas in need of further investigation. Variously ascribed through individual (psychological or legal consciousness) frameworks, sociocultural explanations and organizational perspectives, research consistently demonstrates that, like other forms of sexual violence, individuals who experience workplace SH suffer significant psychological, health‐ and job‐related consequences. Yet they often do not make formal complaints through internal organizational procedures or to outside bodies. Laws, structural reforms and policy initiatives have had some success in raising awareness of the problem and have shaped rules and norms in the employment context. However, there is an imperative to target further workplace actions to effectively prevent and respond to SH.

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Section: Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace Sexual Harassment 30 Years on: A Review of the Literature

McDonald¹

2011

Int J Management Reviews

453

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“…Because both interviewers were women, the participants may not have shared all of the information they knew about hogging because they did not want to offend us (equally they may have been 'playing up' for the interviewers). Gailey and Prohaska (2006) reported that one interviewee actually contacted the first author following the interview to ask her on a date. When she declined, he became hostile and stated that she and Prohaska were lucky they were in good shape or men would not be talking to them about hogging (p. 47).…”

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“…Accordingly, deviant women are viewed as deserving of negative treatment from others. In fact, Gailey and Prohaska (2006) found that denial of the victim, or the notion that there was no victim in the encounter because she deserved the treatment, was a common theme reported by men who participated in hogging. The men believed that these women either welcomed the attention or deserved it because they did not conform to gender-based appearance norms.…”

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Achieving masculinity through sexual predation: the case of hogging

Prohaska

Gailey

2010

Journal of Gender Studies

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Hegemonic masculinity in the contemporary United States involves control, domination, competition, aggression, and the devaluing of women. Hogging, a practice whereby men seek out women they deem unattractive or fat for sexual purposes, has been largely overlooked by scholars. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to explore hogging from a sociology of masculinities perspective. Interviews and content analyses were conducted to learn about why men hog and what they are able to achieve from this behavior. These data indicate that most men who participate in this behavior are concerned with how hogging affects their relationships with their male peers. Men who hog achieve status in their peer groups by gaining sexual access to women they see as 'easy'. Even men who do not engage in sexual activity gain from the sexual encounters of their peers, by either participating in 'bets' or being entertained by the stories their peers tell them about hogging. Hogging, then, is less about the encounters with women and more about homosociality.

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“…The research on fat sexuality is quite diverse, including work on the exploitation of fat women for sexual purposes (Prohaska andGailey 2010, 2009;Gailey and Prohaska 2006;Goode and Priessler 1983), fat as a shield from sexual behavior among women (Millman 1980;Orbach 1978), and, more recently, fat women's sexuality as vibrant and healthy (Gailey 2012). However, only two empirical studies on feederism have been conducted (Prohaska 2013;Bestard 2009), and neither has used a sexual deviance framework.…”

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