The Persistence of Global Masculinism: Discourse, Gender and Neo-Colonial Re-Articulations of Violence
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Masculinism as Logic or Ethos, not Identity -- The Masculinist Voice: Universalism, Reason, Neutrality and Subordination -- Epistemology and Approach: Power, Discourse, Harm, Protection and Violence -- Case Studies -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: #Notallmen, #Menenism, Manospheres and Unsafe Spaces: Overt and Subtle Masculinism in Anti-"PC" Discourse -- Men's Rights, the Alt-Right and 'Populist Correctness' -- Masculinist Ontologies: Essence, Binaries, Individualism, Equality and Choice -- Essence and Hierarchy -- Equalism, Choice, Gender Neutrality and "Reverse Discrimination" -- 'Reals Before Feels' in Online Antagonism -- Men's Feels Before Women's Reals: Reverse Feminism, 'Stuckedness' and Affective Masculinism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Real Victims, Real Men, Real Feminists, Real Sluts. The Persistent Masculinist Collapse of Gender-based Violence Discourses -- Backlashes and Regression: Victim Blaming, MRAs and Populist 'Commonsense' -- Men-centred Perspectives and Masculinist Recuperation -- Individualising -- Protectionism -- Strategic Efficacy? -- Contemporary Feminist Consciousness Raising Approaches to VAW: False Antitheses -- Critiques of SlutWalk -- Femen and the Danger of Feminist Protectionism -- Conclusion: Beyond either 'the Critique or the Clit' -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Muscular Humanitarian Intervention -- Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and 'Saving Distant Others': The Rise of Protectionist Discourses -- The Politics of Protection: Co-opting Feminism and Gendering Order -- Protection and Sovereignty -- Co-opting Feminism for Military Intervention -- The Resurgence of Masculinism? Violence, Order and Power in the International System Level -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Drones and the Politics of Protection