sexism

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/18/2022
  

  American Militarism is the Key to Understanding Today's Violence Against Asian Women

  Since the Philippine-American war in the 1890s, the sexual exploitation of Asian women has gone hand in hand with American militarism in the Pacific. It's foolish to pretend that this history has nothing to do with attacks on Asian American women today. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/4/2022
  

  Ukraine Beyond the Post-Soviet Frame

  by Ileana Nachescu

  Framing the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an extension of grievances that festered during the Soviet era ignores the drastic changes wrought in Eastern Europe by neoliberal capitalism, racism, sexism, migration and patriarchal religion, and sustains an impoverished view of what peace and freedom in Ukraine can be.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  11/7/2021
  

  Inside the 1980s Phenomenon of "Truly Tasteless Jokes" and What it Says about a Cultural Shift around Offensiveness

  The wildly successful series of paperbacks heralded a moment when the embrace of offensiveness as a political weapon was shifting from the left to the right (audio contains the contents of some Truly Tasteless Jokes). 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10/15/2021
  

  What Does it Mean to Call Someone a "Male Chauvinist Pig"?

  by Julie Willett

  Merging the term "chauvinism" from the old left and the radical 1960s desire to render authority grotesque, the term emerged with the second wave of feminism. But today some of the sexists labeled with it appear to have turned it into a badge of honor. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/14/2021
  

  California Ski Resort to Change Racist, Sexist Name

  "In modern usage, the word "squaw" is considered to be "offensive, derogatory, racist, and misogynistic," the resort, formerly known as Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, said as it explained its reasoning."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/29/2021
  

  Simone Biles has Courageously Exposed the Blurred Line between Medicine and Abuse

  by Wendy Kline

  Simone Biles has worked to ensure that Dr. Larry Nasser's abuse of gymnasts under his care is not forgotten. This abuse was enabled by the authoritarian culture of both medicine and sports which keep women from exercising bodily autonomy. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/25/2021
  

  The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood: Prof. Beth Allison Barr's Historical Challenge to Evangelical Gender Roles

  “Women think all of this is the Bible because they learn it in their churches,” Barr told me. “But it’s really a post-Second World War construction of domesticity, which was designed to send working women back to the kitchen.”

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/3/2021
  

  The Solution to the Craft Beer Industry’s Sexism and Diversity Problems

  by Allyson P. Brantley

  Absent robust enforcement of sex discrimination prohibitions by the EEOC (which frequently dismissed women brewery workers' complaints), consumer boycotts alongside union actions forced major brewers to change their practices. Will similar strategies help fight sexism in today's craft brewing world?

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• 4/25/2021
  

  “Not Your Fetish”: Protesting Racism and Misogyny Against Asian American Women

  by Hao Zou

  The Atlanta massage parlor killings reflect a century and a half of history in which racist and misogynistic stereotypes of Asian women have been normalized in American culture. Protests are demanding change.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/2/2021
  

  Her Crazy Driving is a Key Element of Cruella DeVil’s Evil. Here’s Why

  by Genevieve Carpio

  The depiction of Cruella DeVil as a dangerous and deranged driver in the new prequel to "101 Dalmatians" draws on deep-seated sexist tropes that recognize driving and mobility as aspects of women's social freedom. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/23/2021
  

  The Dehumanizing Logic of All the ‘Happy Ending’ Jokes

  by Anne Anlin Cheng

  "The figure of the eroticized-yet-degraded Asian woman can be readily found in movies and onstage. One of the most visibly racist, sexist, and inhuman tropes to emerge out of Western imperial history, this woman nonetheless hardly registers in the public consciousness as someone who has suffered discrimination.

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• SOURCE: NBC
  

  Racism, Sexism Must be Considered in Atlanta Case, Experts Say

  Historian Ellen Wu explains that the particular racial and sexual stereotyping of Asian American women derives from the history of immigration, moral panics over prostitution, and the involvement of the United States military in a series of wars against Asian people. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/18/2021
  

  How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women

  Ellen Wu of Indiana University is among the scholars offering insight on the historical roots of the sexual fetishization of American women and its connection to violence.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/7/2021
  

  Texas School’s Lesson on Chivalry Asked Girls to ‘Walk Daintily’ and Obey Men

  Students interviewed were divided between recognizing the pedagogical goal of showing how chivalry could excuse the subordination of women, others (and some parents) disagreed with the method. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  2/19/2021
  

  Female Faculty Wrote a Brave Letter to Northwestern about Sexual Harassment, Racism Allegations from Cheerleaders.

  “The idea that some of the people taking this class from me might be subjected to the very things we’re discussing, during campus-sanctioned activities,” [History Professor Kate] Masur said, “it’s jarring and disgusting.”

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/17/2021
  

  The Skinny on Teaching Evals and Bias

  A metastudy of bias in student evaluations of college teachers shows that conformity to dominant gender roles is a condition for receiving good evaluations; students both favor profs with masculine traits and punish women for not performing femininity.

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• SOURCE: The Lily
  2/9/2021
  

  Southern Baptist Leaders Called Kamala Harris a ‘Jezebel.’ That’s not just Insulting, it’s Dangerous, Experts Say

  Religious Studies scholar Jessica Johnson says that the "Jezebel" trope used against Harris connects suspicion of women's power, old southern stereotypes of Black women as morally deficient, and present-day White Christian Nationalism.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/10/2021
  

  Larry Flynt, Who Built a Porn Empire With Hustler, Dies at 78

  "Mr. Flynt’s interpretation was simpler. 'If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me,' he said, 'then it will protect all of you. Because I’m the worst'."

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• 12/20/2020
  

  Actually, It's Doctor....

  by Suzanne Chod

  A recent editorial asking Dr. Jill Biden to stop using the honorific is steeped in sexism and nostalgia for the unchallenged authority of white men. Ironically, her upcoming public role may help to further break down such hierarchies.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/14/2020
  

  That Op-Ed About Jill Biden Was Sexist. But the Real Problem Lies Deeper

  by Allison Miller

  Beyond its sexism and disregard for expertise, the notorious Wall Street Journal op ed highlights a culture of deference to hierarchy that limits the prospects of women and minorities in academic work.