Description: Originally published as: Politische Mèannlichkeit: wie Incels, Fundamentalisten und Autoritèare fèur das Patriarchat mobilmachen. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2020.
Review Quotes:
'Political Masculinity is an intelligent and urgently needed book on the global rise of misogyny, anti-feminism and toxic masculinity. Kaiser powerfully shows how male supremacists, right-wing populists and religious fundamentalists are tied together. From Trump to the incel movement, her book offers a thrilling and accessible deep dive into the masculinity struggles we read about in the headlines on a quasi-daily basis.'
Julia Ebner, author of Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
'We are witnessing a new conjuncture of political masculinity - aggressive, toxic and misogynistic. The book provides knowledgeable insights into global masculinist spaces, as well as processes of mobilizing masculinism. For those interested in gender, politics and de-democratization, a must!'
Birgit Sauer, University of Vienna
'[T]he breadth and nuance present in Kaiser's analysis firmly situates Political Masculinity as requisite reading for scholars concerned with the reshaping of hegemonic masculinity, the gendered character of the far-right, or the authoritarian turn in contemporary politics.'
Social Forces