The Other Side
- 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.
| Author details: | Ann-Kathrin RothermelORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa024 |
| ISSN: | 1072-4745 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2893 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Social politics : international studies in gender, state, and society |
| Subtitle (English): | assessing the polarization of gender knowledge through a feminist analysis of the affective-discursive in anti-feminist online communities |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/08/30 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Release date: | 2023/03/09 |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 24 |
| First page: | 718 |
| Last Page: | 741 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 36 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste / 360 Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste; Verbände | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
