Ambivalent Sexism and the Dumb Blonde: Men's and Women's Reactions to Sexist Jokes

By Dara N. Greenwood, Linda M. Isbell. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Disparagement humor: A theoretical and empirical review of psychoanalytic, superiority, and social identity theories (2008, background): “Disparagement humor is distinctive among forms of humor in that it both ‘‘diminishes’’ and ‘‘reinterprets’’ its subject (Fine 1983; Greenwood and Isbell 2002; Wyer and Collins 1992).”
Women's Intentions Regarding, and Acceptance of, Self-Sexualizing Behavior (2009, background): “Although women high in hostile sexism believe women try to control men (Glick & Fiske, 1996) and accept the degradation of women through jokes (e.g., Greenwood & Isbell, 2002), this did not extend to the sexualizing behaviors we examined.”
The burden of benevolent sexism: how it contributes to the maintenance of gender inequalities (2005, background): “…expressions of sexism are often quite subtle, and can even be positive in tone (Benokraitis & Feagin, 1995; Swim, Aikin, Hall, & Hunter, 1995), for instance because they are presented as jokes (Greenwood & Isbell, 2002; LaFrance & Woodzicka, 1998), or as a form of flattery (Pryor & Whalen, 1996).”
Women's Benevolent Sexism as Reaction to Hostility (2006, background): “In terms of reliability, internal consistency estimates have ranged from around .80 to the low .90s for the Hostile subscale and .70 to the upper .80s for the Benevolent subscale (e.g., Glick & Fiske, 1996; Greenwood & Isbell, 2002; Viki & Abrams, 2003).”
Individual Differences in Reactions to Sexist Humor (2004, background): “Specifically, participants in the Greenwood and Isbell (2002) study evaluated jokes embedded in a conversation between two men that were disparaging of the joke teller’s girlfriend.”
Breast is Best…But Not Everywhere: Ambivalent Sexism and Attitudes Toward Private and Public Breastfeeding (2009, methodology): “In the current study, the scales of hostile sexism (alpha = .82) and benevolent sexism (alpha = .77) demonstrated comparable reliability with previous work using these scales (Glick and Fiske 1996; Greenwood and Isbell 2002).”