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Ambivalent sexism

2001; Elsevier BV; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0065-2601(01)80005-8

1557-8410

Peter Glick, Susan T. Fiske,

Gender Roles and Identity Studies

This chapter bridges the gap between the prejudice and close relationship approaches to gender relations. It explores how structural relations among the sexes generate ambivalent attitudes by each sex towards the other, capturing the two poles of relations among the sexes. The chapter considers the ambivalent sexism theory that highlights the striking coexistence of power difference and intimate interdependence among the sexes and suggests that these conditions are cross-culturally pervasive. This peculiar combination essentially creates hostile and benevolent ideologies about both men and women. These ideologies are cultural beliefs that, at a systemic level, help to legitimize conventional gender relations and roles. At the individual level, men and women adopt these beliefs to differing degrees, shaping the way in which they perceive and treat members of each sex. These gender ideologies essentially employs two self-report inventories— namely, the ambivalent sexism inventory (ASI) that measures hostile sexism (HS), sexist antipathy towards women, and benevolent sexism (BS), the ambivalence toward men inventory (AMI) that measures hostility toward men (HM), and benevolence toward men (BM).