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Stereotypes, Sexism And Superhuman Faculty, Teneille R. Brown
Stereotypes, Sexism And Superhuman Faculty, Teneille R. Brown
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
This symposium article explores how law professors with caretaking responsibilities struggled so greatly during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because legal academia prioritizes masculine ideals of competence over warmth, faculty were expected to suppress their emotions and mental health needs in order to maintain the appearance of competence. While students were allowed to be seen as vulnerable individuals needing accommodations, we did not extend this same compassion to our faculty colleagues. To explain why the treatment was so disparate, I incorporated existing research on the stereotype content model (SCM) and psychological theories of dehumanization. These theories help to …
To Be Male: Homophobia, Sexism, And The Production Of “Masculine” Boys, Clifford Rosky
To Be Male: Homophobia, Sexism, And The Production Of “Masculine” Boys, Clifford Rosky
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
This chapter is about the relationship between homophobia and sexism in family law. By conducting an empirical analysis of custody and visitation cases, it shows that stereotypes about the children of lesbian and gay parents are both sexist and homophobic. In some cases, the relationship between homophobia and sexism becomes especially obvious, when stereotypes explicitly conflate the sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender roles of children and parents. By looking more closely, however, we can find more subtle evidence of this relationship in a much wider range of cases, wherever stereotypes of the children of lesbian and gay parents appear. …