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Political Masculinity

How Incels, Fundamentalists and Authoritarians Mobilise for Patriarchy

Susanne Kaiser Valentine A. Pakis

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English
Polity Press
20 May 2022
Men with assault rifles, balaclavas and Hawaiian shirts pulled over bulletproof vests. Horned warriors with painted faces and fur headdresses draped over their naked torsos.  The storming of the Capitol brought together men who had previously come across one another only online in the Manosphere. These were men with a common interest, followers of a male-supremacist ideology, who rioted in order to fight for their privilege.  Before then, the world had looked on as devastating attacks were carried out by incels: those who seek to gain unfettered access to women’s bodies by redrawing the hierarchy of the sexes in order to ensure the subjugation of women.

For all of these men, masculinity is a political project, and the events at the Capitol were one episode in a growing movement. From the US and Canada to New Zealand, from Poland to Brazil, right-wing extremists, religious fundamentalists and male supremacists are coming together in order to translate their reactionary dreams of male domination into politics, underscoring the masculine roots of the authoritarian backlash.

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Imprint:   Polity Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 213mm,  Width: 137mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9781509550814
ISBN 10:   150955081X
Pages:   220
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Acknowledgments Introduction I. Organized Misogyny The Incel Movement A New Type of Misogynist Masculinity The “Manosphere”: A Reservoir of Aggrieved Men Violence against Women, Online and Offline Attacks against Women A New Form of Terrorism Emerges II. The Ideologies of Authoritarians: For the “Natural Order” Aggrieved Entitlement The Politicization of Masculinity The Prophets of the Masculinists White Sharia III. The Politics of Masculinity Translating Aggrieved Entitlement into Political Action Unholy Alliances The Networks and Strategies of the Anti-Gender Movement Follow the Money: How Transnational Movements Are Built Riding Hegemonic Masculinity to Power Biologism as an Attack on Democracy Poster Girls and Female Architects Conclusion: Masculinity in Uncertain Times Notes

Susanne Kaiser is a journalist and political consultant who writes for Die Zeit and Der Spiegel.

Reviews for Political Masculinity: How Incels, Fundamentalists and Authoritarians Mobilise for Patriarchy

'Political Masculinity is an intelligent and urgently needed book on the global rise of misogyny, anti-feminism and toxic masculinity. Kaiser powerfully shows how male supremacists, right-wing populists and religious fundamentalists are tied together. From Trump to the incel movement, her book offers a thrilling and accessible deep dive into the masculinity struggles we read about in the headlines on a quasi-daily basis.' Julia Ebner, author of Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists 'We are witnessing a new conjuncture of political masculinity - aggressive, toxic and misogynistic. The book provides knowledgeable insights into global masculinist spaces, as well as processes of mobilizing masculinism. For those interested in gender, politics and de-democratization, a must!' Birgit Sauer, University of Vienna


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