PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Slut-Shaming, Slut, Outlet Store

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Lizzie Sauber

Document Summary

A hierarchical system of privilege and oppression based on gender. White women confer privilege from racial identity that protects them from some forms of sexism. Policing of black women"s bodies, hair in workplace. Hostile: overtly negative biases/values stemming from stereotypes about women. Benevolent: positive biases/values stemming from stereotypes about women. Protection, idealization, and affection directed toward women that serves to justify women"s subordinate status to men. Moderately correlated to hostile sexism (glick & fiske, 2011) Rewards women who stay in line, punishes those who do not. Lower self-esteem, more avoidance, and higher fear of crime compared to those who were not exposed to bs (phelan et al. , 2010) The expectation that a husband would feel threatened by a wife"s career success; fear of physical violence (exposito et al. , 2010) Higher levels of body surveillance, shame compared to those who were not exposed to. A woman applies for a high power management position at a large, retail outlet store.