The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities

Outi Hakola, Janne Salminen, Juho Turpeinen, Oscar Winberg

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781978755970
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

The ideologies and practices of various populist movements are centered on issues of gender, especially idealized notions of masculinity. Offering cultural, political, and historical approaches from a range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives, The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities analyzes articulations and performances that link populism to masculinity. In particular, the collection studies political participation in the form of public debates, media, and popular culture. The authors emphasize that in order to understand what can be defined as populism, we need to look at the culture that it inhabits and the efforts to claim, challenge, and reclaim the popular. Writing from a wide range of international contexts, the contributors to The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities explore how populist masculinities are articulated and performed, whether there is something problematic about a specifically masculine populism, and whether there is hope for a pluralist, inclusive, even progressive form of masculine populism.
Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities' international range of contributors explore how populist masculinities are articulated and performed, whether there is something problematic about a specifically masculine populism, and whether there is hope for a pluralist, inclusive, even progressive form of masculine populism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities
• The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part 1 Masculine Populists
• Chapter 1
• Iberian Swagger versus Feminist Masculinity
• Chapter 2
• Signifying Illiberalism
• Chapter 3
• Strong Borders and Masculine Orders
• Chapter 4
• The Masculinist Restoration Project in the Rhetoric of Anti-Gender Movements
• Chapter 5
• Nature Lovers and Fuzzy Headed Thinkers
• Populist Masculinities
• Chapter 6
• The Primogeniture of the White Man
• Chapter 7
• The Populist Body at Work (and War)
• Chapter 8
• Hypermasculine Images and the Hindu Identity in Malayalam Cinema
• Chapter 9
• A Prophecy of Bolsonaro
• Chapter 10
• Send in the Clowns
• Chapter 11
• Crisis of Masculinity in Disney Era Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
• Index
• About the Contributors