Political Masculinity

How Incels, Fundamentalists and Authoritarians Mobilise for Patriarchy

Susanne Kaiser, Valentine A. Pakis

• Editorial: Polity
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781509550821
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Politics & International Relations
• Categoría: Politics

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.

Index

• 4chan 25–6, 36, 42–4, 57–8, 61
• ‘80/20 rule’ 20, 97

A

• A Black Woman Stole My Job (talk show) 76–7
• ‘A Voice for Men’ website 29–30, 40–1
• abortion/anti-abortion activism
  • Catholic Church 131, 133–4, 141
  • CitizenGo 149
  • Germany 179
  • Poland 131
  • US Supreme Court 162
• aggrieved entitlement 73–85
  • concept of 8, 76
  • and feeling of powerlessness 46
  • and politicization of masculinity 85–94
  • translating into political action 124–6
• alpha males
  • and ‘beta male uprising’ / ‘beta rebellion’ 16, 19–20, 49
  • and Muslims 117–18
  • and right-wing populism 37
  • and sense of entitlement 79
• Alternative for Germany (AfD) 85, 166–70, 171–2
  • leadership 135
  • LGBTQ+ member and policy 179–80
  • and related political groups 127
  • women members and women’s policy issues 173–4, 175–9, 194–...