Making sense of everyday sexism: Young people and the gendered contours of sexism

Calder-Dawe, Octavia; Gavey, Nicola

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2015.11.004

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“…In talking about experiences of sexism and sexual harassment, many people have found that it only leads to being socially labelled as overly sensitive, overreacting, uptight killjoys (Ahmed 2017). Those who seek to overcome such social stigma are often further stigmatized as 'bitter, self-serving feminists', accused of pursuing trivialities and causing unwarranted trouble (Ahmed 2017;Calder-Dawe and Gavey 2016;Mills 2008;Olson et al 2008;Whitley and Page 2015).…”

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Sexual Harassment in Higher Education - Experiences and Perceptions among Students at a Danish University

Guschke¹,

Busse²,

Khalid³

et al. 2019

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Taking higher education to be an arena in which professional and social interaction has a special propensity to overlap, this paper investigates university students’ experiences and perceptions of sexual harassment. Based on survey data, we find varying responses according to their gender and nationality, indicating that men and Danish students are least likely to experience and perceive situations as sexual harassment. Further, we find a wide-spread normalization of certain potentially offensive acts and behaviours. In addition, students report varying degrees of acceptability of certain acts, depending on context. On this basis, we argue that normalization hinders individual students’ ability to recognize and denounce sexual harassment. The influence of social norms on individual experiences and perceptions, we assert, means sexual harassment is neither an objective category nor an individual responsibility. In consequence, issues of sexual harassment can only be dealt with if and when universities assume responsibility for the norms that prevail within their spheres of influence.

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Sexual Harassment in Higher Education - Experiences and Perceptions among Students at a Danish University

Guschke¹,

Busse²,

Khalid³

et al. 2019

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“…Sexism can be defined as gender-based false aspirations/ideals, discrimination or stereotyping (Calder-Dawe and Gavey, 2016), although in the course of the paper we devote space to participants who define the process themselves.…”

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Ethics, politics and feminist organizing: Writing feminist infrapolitics and affective solidarity into everyday sexism

Vachhani¹,

2018

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This paper critically examines a twenty-first century online, social movement, The Everyday Sexism Project (referred to as the ESP), to analyse resistance against sexism that is systemic, entrenched and institutionalised in society, including organizations. Our motivating questions are: what new forms of feminist organizing are developing to resist sexism and what are the implications of thinking ethico-politically about feminist resistance which has the goals of social justice, equality and fairness? Reading the ESP leads to a conceptualisation of how infrapolitical feminist resistance emerges at grassroots level and between individuals in the form of affective solidarity, which become necessary in challenging neoliberal threats to women's opportunity and equality. Our contribution conceptualises affective solidarity as central to this feminist resistance against sexism and involves two modes of feminist organizing, the politics of experience and empathy. By addressing the ethical and political demands of solidarity we can build resurgent, politically vibrant feminist organizing and resistance that mobilises feminist consciousness and builds momentum for change. Our 2 conclusion is that an ethico-politics of feminist resistance moves away from individualising experiences of sexism towards collective resistance and organizes solidarity, experience and empathy that may combat ignorance and violence towards women.

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“…The young men articulated a construction of themselves as masculine through their disavowal of sexting which reaffirmed some of the tenets of hegemonic masculinity and enabled them to take pleasure in young women's bodies while distancing themselves from the risky pursuit of 'lad points'. Masculinity was constructed in terms of access to women's bodies, and was implicated in gendered power relations in which young women were given few rights to sexual and bodily expression (see Calder-Dawe and Gavey 2016;O'Neill 2015). Assuming there is a level playing field may, therefore, be ill-conceived (Salter 2015).…”

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‘Confident’ and ‘hot’ or ‘desperate’ and ‘cowardly’? Meanings of young men’s sexting practices in youth sexting culture

Setty

2019

Journal of Youth Studies

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Making sense of everyday sexism: Young people and the gendered contours of sexism

Cited by 25 publications

References 24 publications

Sexual Harassment in Higher Education - Experiences and Perceptions among Students at a Danish University

Sexual Harassment in Higher Education - Experiences and Perceptions among Students at a Danish University

Ethics, politics and feminist organizing: Writing feminist infrapolitics and affective solidarity into everyday sexism

‘Confident’ and ‘hot’ or ‘desperate’ and ‘cowardly’? Meanings of young men’s sexting practices in youth sexting culture

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