5.7 Nora Gilbert and Paige Sweet on Gaslighting

Hopkins Press Podcasts · Jul 22, 2026 · 45m

The most recent issue of our journal Social Research focuses on the concept of “Gaslighting,” a term that has gained a great deal of popularity in recent years that has its roots in classic cinema and theatre, most famously in the 1944 film Gaslight, for which Ingrid Bergman was awarded a best actress Oscar. The articles in this special issue look at gaslighting in myriad contexts, from film and domestic violence to international politics and the judiciary. For this episode, we speak with two authors from the issue: sociologist Paige Sweet, who is looking at Gaslighting in Intimate…