Antifeminism and backlash

Dragiewicz, Molly

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“…Resistance is an inevitable, though undesirable, response to efforts at progressive social change. A typical feature of the backlash is the desire of some proponents to return to aspects of an idealized past in which structural inequality was normalized [10]. Members of privileged groups therefore often become angry and more defensive when their privilege is challenged [15].…”

Section: The Present Study: Perceived Threat To Male Hegemony and Str...mentioning

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Representations of Feminism and Strategies for Defending Male Hegemony in a Patriarchal Context: The Moderating Effect of Sociodemographic and Attitudinal Variables

Mouafo

2024

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Many African societies apply patriarchy, an oppressive, authoritarian and discriminatory social system in which power rests with men, for regulating gender relations. However, with the socio-structural evolution of these societies, new ideological currents gradually change the mores of the citizens, among which feminism. This ideology aims for more equitable relations between the sexes, which implicitly means questioning the model of patriarchal societies and contesting male domination; hence its potential danger and the defense strategies that men could adopt to mitigate or even annihilate its impact. This research is interested not only in these strategies, but also in the factors which are their catalysts; a question which, to the best of our knowledge, is little explored in the African patriarchal context specifically. In this vein, the hypotheses it tests propose that, in the African patriarchal context, men’s sociodemographic characteristics, their feeling that male hegemony is threatened and their adherence to the patriarchal system interact with representations of feminism to explain the defensive strategies they develop to preserve their hegemony consecrated by patriarchy. To test these hypotheses, a survey was conducted among 554 male participants residing in the towns of Maroua and Dschang (Cameroon). Their ages range from 19 to 67 years (M= 24.61; SD= 7.10). They were administered various measurement scales relating to representations of feminism (α=.75), feeling of threat to male hegemony (α=.70), defense strategies (α=.76) and support to patriarchy (α=.76). The data collected provides empirical support for the hypotheses of the study.

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Section: The Present Study: Perceived Threat To Male Hegemony and Str...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Representations of Feminism and Strategies for Defending Male Hegemony in a Patriarchal Context: The Moderating Effect of Sociodemographic and Attitudinal Variables

Mouafo

2024

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“…Resistance to adopting progressive ideals of nonviolence and gender equality is framed as "backlash," which is generally understood as referring to "a dynamic process that occurs in response to threats to the interests of the powerful" (Dragiewicz, 2018, p. 36). Backlash is both resistance to progressing women's rights and gender equality and a strategy to maintain intersecting forms of social stratification including sexuality, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and marital status (Dragiewicz, 2018). Antifeminist men's rights activist (MRA) groups mobilize to fuel backlash to feminist-informed evidence, policies, and gender equality gains (Dragiewicz, 2018).…”

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“…Backlash is both resistance to progressing women's rights and gender equality and a strategy to maintain intersecting forms of social stratification including sexuality, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and marital status (Dragiewicz, 2018). Antifeminist men's rights activist (MRA) groups mobilize to fuel backlash to feminist-informed evidence, policies, and gender equality gains (Dragiewicz, 2018). By doing so, they represent public resistance to challenges directed toward male privilege and this resistance, we argue, contributes to young men's everyday resistance (and mistrust) of women's accounts of VAWG (Gotell & Dutton, 2016).…”

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Disrupting Patriarchal Illusio to Reduce Violence Against Women and Girls

Mackenzie

Louth

2023

Violence Against Women

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We apply a Bourdieusian lens to understand the reproduction of a patriarchal illusio that works to maintain violence-supportive attitudes and concurrent low levels of support for gender equality among young people. We analyze interview and focus group data collected with young women and men and conclude that we must disrupt the reproduction of patriarchal norms by: recognizing the intentional operation of backlash by men's rights activist groups that undermine attempts to transform society; ensuring girls’ and women's safety on new technologies to reduce their exposure to sexism and violence; and introducing prevention early to disrupt misogynist social norms being internalized.

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“…'The most recent wave of groups advocating for "men's rights" appeared in the late 1960s in response both to divorce reform and the rising feminist movement' . 13 De 'alt-right' mannenbeweging is vandaag de meest in het oog springende manifestatie van antifeministische opinievorming. Niettemin reageren zowel pro-als antifeministische mannelijke activisten, intellectuelen en politici al ten minste twee eeuwen op ontwikkelingen in het feminisme.…”

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Mannelijkheid in de Nederlandse literatuur

Pieterse¹,

Vitse²

2019

Nederlandse Letterkunde

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Het was niet moeilijk om voor de opening van dit themanummer een actuele illustratie te vinden: meningen over de man zijn in de hedendaagse Nederlandse samenleving nauwelijks te ontlopen.1 In de Volkskrant van 4 april 2019 gaat Sunny Bergman in gesprek met Theo Maassen, over haar documentaire Man Made en zijn voorstelling Situatie gewijzigd. Wie niet afknapt op een dovemansgesprek of op seksistische clichés over apen en pis tooltjes vindt in dit dubbelinterview zowat alle argumenten in het actuele debat over genderverhoudingen en mannelijkheid terug.Laten we beide gesprekspartners aan het woord laten. Bergman: 'In deze film wilde ik mannen als antropologisch fenomeen beschouwen. Voor mij was het eigenlijk een eyeopener dat mannen ook aan stereotypen moeten voldoen, en daar last van kunnen hebben.'2 Maassen: 'De mannelijke identiteit wordt verdacht gemaakt. Het uitgangspunt moet zijn: het is oké hoe je bent. Ook als je een man bent. En de teneur is nu dat man-zijn niet oké is.'3 Deze overwegingen en bijbehorende sentimenten vatten veel van wat na deze inleiding volgt samen. Of de man nou meelijwekkend, boos of gestigmatiseerd is, zijn vanzelfsprekende, neutrale positie in de cultuur is hij kwijt. Hij voelt zich bedreigd, opgejaagd en onterecht beschuldigd -of hij schudt de stereotiepe genderverwachtingen opgelucht van zich af.Genderverhoudingen en de positie van de man lijken in het begin van de eenentwintigste eeuw grote maatschappelijke en politieke effecten te sorteren. Rechts-conservatieve opiniemakers als Thierry Baudet in Nederland, Jordan Peterson in de VS en Eric Zemmour in Frankrijk verbinden antifeministische denkbeelden met een bredere kritiek op la pensée soixante-huit, op de wetenschap en op maatschappelijke verschijnselen als globalisering

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Antifeminism and backlash

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Representations of Feminism and Strategies for Defending Male Hegemony in a Patriarchal Context: The Moderating Effect of Sociodemographic and Attitudinal Variables

Representations of Feminism and Strategies for Defending Male Hegemony in a Patriarchal Context: The Moderating Effect of Sociodemographic and Attitudinal Variables

Disrupting Patriarchal Illusio to Reduce Violence Against Women and Girls

Mannelijkheid in de Nederlandse literatuur

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