An ideological dilemma: the resurgence of sexism and the disappearance of 'sexism'

Title: An ideological dilemma: the resurgence of sexism and the disappearance of 'sexism'
Creator: Gill, Rosalind
Relation: Rhetoric, Ideology and Social Psychology: Essays in Honour of Michael Billig p. 109-121
Relation: Explorations in Social Psychology
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203386088
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: The notion of sexism is fast becoming an endangered idea. It is disappearing from everyday parlance, as well as from academic writing, where it is frequently presented as crude and w1sophisticated, not worthy of attention from the subtle minds of the theoretical literati. Whilst 'racism' and 'homophobia' retain their critical force as key political and intellectual concepts, 'sexism' - the term , though not, unfortunately, the practice - seems on the way to extinction. If it were an animal, charities would be springing up to cherish and nurture it, with advertising, public education and fundraising schemes, but there is no campaign to defend the term 'sexism', and few people are seemingly even contemplating how the loss from our critical lexicon of this powerful idea might impoverish our political and intellectual futures.
Subject: sexism; feminism; postfeminism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354015
Identifier: uon:31177
Identifier: ISBN:9780415820677
Language: eng

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