2004
Volume 14, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2211-6249
  • E-ISSN: 2211-6257

Abstract

Abstract

In this short adapted-excerpt essay from Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s book, (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.

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