"This dynamic study presents a radical approach to understanding the spread of right-wing populism through the lens of gender and threats to masculinity."
Connecting the pandemic-like spread of right-wing populism with aggrieved masculinity (i.e. “a seething sense of rightful virility wrongly denied”), Karen Lee Ashcraft’s Wronged and Dangerous makes a convincing argument for shifting studies of populism away from only considering issues of class. Rather, Ashcraft’s position puts gender to the fore as she explores whether right-wing populism might be fuelled by the idea that traditional “manhood” is under attack.
Enlivened and backed by personal experiences and case studies, the book is underpinned by a belief in the value of “lateral empathy” i.e. rather than “confronting the anger itself”, we should “slow down to perceive what animates hostility.” This approach is central to the author’s focus on how populism spreads, as opposed to only considering what it is. Indeed, this thought-provoking work concludes with a list of ways we might “interrupt the circuits of aggrieved masculinity” in order to save humankind.
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Is populism fueled by a feeling of manhood under attack? If gender is its driving force, are there better ways to respond? COVID-19 delivers a stark warning: the global surge of populism endangers public health. Wronged and Dangerous introduces viral masculinity as a novel way to meet that threat by tackling the deep connection of our social and physical worlds. It calls us to ask not what populism says, but how it spreads. Leading with gender without leaving socioeconomic forces behind, it upends prevailing wisdom about populist politics today. You do not need to know or care about gender to get invested. You only need to be concerned with our future.
Wronged and Dangerous features in the following genres: Business and Management, Social attitudes, Social discrimination and social justice, Gender studies, gender groups, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Gender studies: men and boys, Society and Social Sciences, Society and culture: general, Social and ethical issues, Social groups, communities and identities, Politics and government, Political ideologies and movements, Economics, Finance, Business and Management, History, History and Archaeology
Wronged and Dangerous is available in Paperback, Ebook
Wronged and Dangerous was written by Karen Lee Ashcraft and published by Bristol University Press
Wronged and Dangerous has 264 pages
£19.79
