2020
DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxaa024
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“The Other Side”: Assessing the Polarization of Gender Knowledge Through a Feminist Analysis of the Affective-Discursive in Anti-Feminist Online Communities

Abstract: Given the current polarization of gender knowledge in the public discourse, this article investigates the “other side” of gender knowledge production. Building on feminist standpoint literature, I conduct a close reading of the affective-discursive dynamics of knowledge production in two anti-feminist online communities in the United States and India. I find that anti-feminist communities appropriate feminist practices of consciousness-raising to construct a shared sense of victimization. This appropriation is… Show more

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“…Alarmingly this anti-feminist movement seems to be growing in Brazil: for example, an online community called “A Voice for Men” experienced a recent increase of traffic ( Rothermel 2020) . Such online forums are widely used to spread polarizing and hateful messages and to organize attacks on feminist activists.…”
Section: Context and Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Alarmingly this anti-feminist movement seems to be growing in Brazil: for example, an online community called “A Voice for Men” experienced a recent increase of traffic ( Rothermel 2020) . Such online forums are widely used to spread polarizing and hateful messages and to organize attacks on feminist activists.…”
Section: Context and Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Through these dynamics, evidence-based misogyny builds and sustains a zero-sum logic on which the collective identity of manosphere users is built. In this logic, men are presented as the ultimate victims of the current societal climate, whereas other groups (in particular women) are considered as unambiguous winners of current gender relations, who drive discriminatory gender dynamics (Carian, 2022; Chang, 2020; Rothermel, 2020c). This victimization narrative has been identified as a common aspect of right-wing discourses, which is used to justify hatred against certain groups in society (see e.g.…”
Section: The Use Of ‘Evidence’ In Evidence-based Misogynymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While the contributions by Korolczuk (2020) and Rothermel (2020) investigate the struggles between gender and anti-gender activists, demonstrating how situated or embodied knowledge and affective solidarity may help a feminist agenda, two other contributions in the special issue contain interesting strategies that put power central to the analysis of policies and policy processes. Cavaghan (2020) analyses attempts to practice intersectionality in gender budgeting in the United Kingdom, showing how they ignored white women's privilege and thus a key part of the problem.…”
Section: Key Needs and Strategies For Advancing Gender And Policy Stu...mentioning
confidence: 99%