“The Other Side”: Assessing the Polarization of Gender Knowledge Through a Feminist Analysis of the Affective-Discursive in Anti-Feminist Online Communities

Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin (2020). “The Other Side”: Assessing the Polarization of Gender Knowledge Through a Feminist Analysis of the Affective-Discursive in Anti-Feminist Online Communities. Social politics : international studies in gender, state, and society, 27(4), pp. 718-741. Oxford University Press 10.1093/sp/jxaa024

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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, however, incomplete. In contrast to feminist practices, anti-feminist knowledge generation is premised on the polarizing themes of “ultimate victimhood” and “ultimate other,” which lead to violence and exclusion, rather than liberation.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science

UniBE Contributor:

Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science

ISSN:

1072-4745

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Ann-Kathrin Rothermel

Date Deposited:

11 May 2023 16:01

Last Modified:

11 May 2023 16:01

Publisher DOI:

10.1093/sp/jxaa024

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/182478

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/182478

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