But She Was Unfaithful: Benevolent Sexism and Reactions to Rape Victims Who Violate Traditional Gender Role Expectations

By G. Viki, Dominic Abrams. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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How Ambivalent Sexism Toward Women and Men Support Rape Myth Acceptance (2007, background): “However, in studies in which participants read acquaintance rape scenarios, benevolent sexism (but not hostile sexism) was associated with increased victim blaming, reduced rapist blaming, and shorter recommendedprisonsentencesfor rapists(Abramsetal.2003; Viki and Abrams 2002 ; V iki et al.2004).”
Ambivalent Sexism, Belief in a Just World, and Empathy as Predictors of Turkish Students’ Attitudes Toward Rape Victims (2007, background): “Specifically, Abrams et al. (2003; see also Viki and Abrahams 2002 ) found that BS predicted more blame toward a date rape victim when she had violated idealized norms of sexual virtue (e.g., by initiating kissing).”
Reinforcing the Glass Ceiling: The Consequences of Hostile Sexism for Female Managerial Candidates (2004, background): “In a series of recent quasiexperimental studies we have begun to consider the relationship of HS and BS to evaluations of individual female targets (Abrams, Viki, Masser, & Bohner, 2003; Viki & Abrams, 2002; Viki, Massey, & Masser, 2003).”
Hostile Sexism and Rape Proclivity Amongst Men (2006, background): “In a parallel line of research on the relationship of benevolent sexism to victim blame ( Viki & Abrams, 2002 ) the manipulation of an aspect of a target’s character (in this instance her marital status) was found to be sufficient to provoke different reactions to her, even when, as in the current s”
Positive Stereotypes Are Pervasive and Powerful (2015, background): “Men and women who strongly endorsed the positive stereotypes inherent in benevolent sexism were more likely to blame female victims of acquaintance rape who were perceived to have acted inappropriately (Abrams, Viki, Masser, & Bohner, 2003; Viki & Abrams, 2002).”
Differentiating Hostile and Benevolent Sexist Attitudes Toward Positive and Negative Sexual Female Subtypes (2004, background): “This positive correlation has led Glick and Fiske to argue that hostile and benevolent sexism reflect complementary ideologies that serve to justify gender inequality (see Glick et al., 2000; Glick & Fiske, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002; Masser & Abrams, 1999; Viki & Abrams, 2002; cf. Petrocelli, 2002, f”
Social Perception of Rape Victims in Dating and Married Relationships: The Role of Perpetrator’s Benevolent Sexism (2010, methodology): “Researchers have consistently found that benevolent sexism predicts victim blame when the victim behaves in a manner inconsistent with traditional gender roles—found by Abrams et al. (2003) and Viki and Abrams (2002) using college English samples, and also by Yamawaki (2007 )i n American samples—,”
Bad Woman, Bad Victim? Disentangling the Effects of Victim Stereotypicality, Gender Stereotypicality and Benevolent Sexism on Acquaintance Rape Victim Blame (2010, background): “Specifically, participants were either told that the victim, who was a widowed mother of two ( Viki and Abrams 2002 ), went to the party having either left her children in the care of a trusted babysitter (stereotypical) or asleep in their beds unattended (counter-stereotypical).”
Breast is Best…But Not Everywhere: Ambivalent Sexism and Attitudes Toward Private and Public Breastfeeding (2009, background): “In one study examining perceptions of rape victims, men high in benevolent sexism attributed significantly more blame to a rape victim described as a married mother who was unfaithful (versus one who was not) based on her violation of the “good woman” role (Viki and Abrams 2002).”
Factors Influencing Attitudes to Violence Against Women (2009, unknown): “For example, women who dress less modestly and more suggestively are more likely to be seen as responsible for and deserving of sexual assault (Viki & Abrams, 2002; Whatley, 2005).”
The burden of benevolent sexism: how it contributes to the maintenance of gender inequalities (2005, background): “It is related to sexual harassment (Fiske & Glick, 1995; Pryor, Geidd, & Williams, 1995), as well as to negative reactions to rape victims (Abrams, Vicky, Masser, & Bohner, 2003; Viki & Abrams, 2002).”