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Paige L. Sweet

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

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. She has written the book The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and its Aftermath (2021).

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

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