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OAHow Misogyny and Gendered Grievances Fuel Authoritarianism
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Fascism, Volume 14, Issue 2, Dec 2025, p. 187 - 196
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- 10 Dec 2025
Abstract
In this short adapted-excerpt essay from Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s book, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism (Princeton University Press, 2025), Miller-Idriss offers a brief analysis of three ways that gender-based grievances are fueling antidemocratic and authoritarian trends. First, the author traces how those grievances are instrumentalized, weaponized, and manipulated by online influencers, profiteers, and right-wing populist and conservative politicians. Second, Miller-Idriss examines how those grievances have been mainstreamed and amplified through popular culture, the media, and rampant online misogyny in social media and other online spaces. And finally, she addresses the role that women play in enabling, reinforcing, and legitimizing gendered grievances in ways that have strengthened authoritarian and antidemocratic movements, including across the far right.
