Paige L. Sweet

Paige L. Sweet (born 1987)^[1] is a sociologist at the University of Michigan, working in the areas of gender and sexuality, knowledge, gender-based violence.^[2] Sweet has received attention for her work^[3] on gaslighting in relationships and the workplace.^[4][5][6] She is the author of The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath (University of California Press, 2021).^[7]

Career

In 2018, Sweet received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois Chicago.^[8]

Sweet is the author of the article “The Sociology of Gaslighting” published in the American Sociological Review (2019), for which she received an award from the American Sociological Association.^[9] She has written the book The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and its Aftermath (2021).^[10][11][12]

As of 2020, she teaches at the University of Michigan, where she studies gaslighting in relationships and in the workplace.^[13] She argues that gaslighting is mostly a sociological phenomenon made possible by social inequalities, including gender.^[14][15] She has related gaslighting to sexual situations,^[16] medicine,^[17][18] the legal system,^[13] and to the work place.^[13]

Selected publications

Articles

• Sweet, Paige L. (1 October 2019). "The Sociology of Gaslighting". American Sociological Review. 84 (5): 851–875.
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• Sweet, Paige L. (1 September 2015). "Chronic Victims, Risky Women: Domestic Violence Advocacy and the Medicalization of Abuse". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 41 (1): 81–106.
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• Sweet, Paige L. (1 December 2014). "'Every bone of my body:' Domestic violence and the diagnostic body". Social Science & Medicine. 122: 44–52.
  PMID 25441316
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• The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath. University of California Press. 2021.
  ISBN 978-0-520-37770-7
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