This study examined the correlations between everyday (nonviolent) sexism and the development of trauma symptoms in women. A total of 382 women completed a subjective measurement of the experience of sexism, a checklist of gender-based stressors (including acts of violence), a measurement of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and a demographic questionnaire. Results indicated a moderately st...

Fraternity members and male student athletes responded to open-ended questions assessing the impact of an empathy-based rape prevention program. All participants reported either lasting attitude or behavior changes; most reported both. Participants reported increased understanding of how rape might feel and attributed this change to seeing a videotape describing a male-on-male rape situation. P...

This article explores the cultural and structural forces that help influence the reproduction of sexist, misogynistic, and antifeminine attitudes among men in team sports. It first shows how the segregation of men into a homosocial environment limits their social contact with women and fosters an oppositional masculinity that influences the reproduction of orthodox views regarding women. Howeve...

This paper describes some of the ways in which popular culture may be a site of social resistance. The subculture of skateboarding is described as one form of popular culture that resists capitalist social relations, and the skateboarders' particularly overt resistance to an amateur contest provides a framework for characterizing their daily and more covert behaviors of resistance. Although soc...

Hate speech in the form of racist and sexist remarks are a common occurrence on social media. For that reason, many social media services address the problem of identifying hate speech, but the definition of hate speech varies markedly and is largely a manual effort (BBC, 2015; Lomas, 2015). We provide a list of criteria founded in critical race theory, and use them to annotate a publicly avail...

Prior studies have shown the existence of gender bias in job postings, performance reviews, and letters recommendation. However, very little research has been done on presence biases mainstream news sources how they vary across publications. Human editing, given rapid pace dissemination, is not effective enough to address biases. Even computer programs that parse articles for specific words ref...

Drawing on the idea of literature as healing (Wilentz), this article examines anti-dualistic restoring defense body, sexuality, and love in Angelou (African American), Cisneros (Chicana), Peri Rossi (Uruguayan Spanish). My trans-American comparative reading seeks to transcend frontiers join poets’ efforts demolish racist, (hetero) sexist, other prejudices. The authors insist body emotions provi...