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Ways of seeing : sexism the forgotten prejudice?

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Valentine, Gill, Jackson, Lucy and Mayblin, Lucy (2014) Ways of seeing : sexism the forgotten prejudice? Gender, Place & Culture, 21 (4). pp. 401-414. doi:10.1080/0966369X.2014.913007

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Abstract

Recent developments in feminism, charted in Gender, Place and Culture over the past 21 years, have stressed the relational, differentiated and contested nature of gender. This has led to the rejection of the unified category women, and with this the right for feminism to make claims on behalf of all women. This paper argues that an unintended consequence of this development in ways of thinking about gender is that patriarchy as a form of power relations has become relatively neglected. It draws on research from a European Research Council project (including biographical interviews and case studies of a gym and workplace) to demonstrate that while the development of equality legislation has contained the public expression of the most blatant forms of gender prejudice, sexism persists and is manifest in subtle ways. As a consequence, it can be difficult to name and challenge with the effect that patriarchy as a power structure which systematically (re)produces gender inequalities,is obscured by its ordinariness. Rather, sexism appears only to be ‘seen’ when it affords the instantiation of other forms of prejudice, such as Islamophobia. As such, we argue that Gender, Place and Culture has a responsibility going forward to make sexism as a particular form of prejudice more visible, while also exposing the complexity and fluidity of its intersectional relationship to other forms of oppression and social categories.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Journal or Publication Title: Gender, Place & Culture
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0966-369X
Official Date: 2014
Dates:
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2014Published
21 May 2014Available
4 March 2014Accepted
10 January 2014Submitted
Volume: 21
Number: 4
Page Range: pp. 401-414
DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2014.913007
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
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