@article{Rothermel2020,
  author    = {Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin},
  title     = {Global-local dynamics in anti-feminist discourses},
  series = {International affairs},
  volume    = {96},
  journal   = {International affairs},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Oxford University Press},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0020-5850},
  doi       = {10.1093/ia/iiaa130},
  pages     = {1367 -- 1385},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Women's rights are a core part of a global consensus on human rights. However, we are currently experiencing an increasing popularity of anti-feminist and misogynist politics threatening to override feminist gains. In order to help explain this current revival and appeal, in this article I analyse how anti-feminist communities construct their collective identities at the intersection of local and global trends and affiliations. Through an in-depth analysis of representations in the collective identities of six popular online anti-feminist communities based in India, Russia and the United States, I shed light on how anti-feminists discursively construct their anti-feminist 'self' and the feminist 'other' between narratives of localized resistance to change and backlash against the results of broader societal developments associated with globalization. The results expose a complex set of global-local dynamics, which provide a nuanced understanding of the differences and commonalities of anti-feminist collective identity-building and mobilization processes across contexts. By explicitly focusing on the role of discursively produced locations for anti-feminist identity-building and providing new evidence on anti-feminist communities across three different continents, the article contributes to current discussions on transnational anti-feminist mobilizations in both social movement studies and feminist International Relations.},
  language  = {en}
}