What’s behind the global surge of right-wing populism? Is it mad men, and has straight white manly grievance gone viral?
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Wronged and Dangerous by Karen Lee Ashcraft suggests what can be done about this viral variant of masculinity: treat it like a global public health problem.
Check out our blog to find out more about aggrieved masculinity as the common thread through right-wing populism, the far right, mass shootings, climate change denial, and more.
As both a scholar and a former right-wing populist, Karen Lee Ashcraft brings a unique view from the inside.
Watch Karen talk about the book here.
Karen Lee Ashcraft is Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder. She grew up in the lap of evangelical populism, and her research examines how gender interacts with race, class, sexuality, and more to shape organizational and cultural politics.
Wronged and Dangerous introduces “viral masculinity” as a novel way to meet that threat by tackling the deep connection of our social and physical worlds. It calls us to ask not what populism says, but how it spreads.
Leading with gender without leaving socioeconomic forces behind, it upends prevailing wisdom about populist politics today. You do not need to know or care about gender to get invested. You only need to be concerned with our future.
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