Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities

<P>The ideologies and practices of various populist movements are centered on issues of gender especially idealized notions of masculinity. Offering cultural political and historical approaches from a range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives <I>The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities</I> analyzes articulations and performances that link populism to masculinity. In particular the collection studies political participation in the form of public debates media and popular culture. The authors emphasize that in order to understand what can be defined as populism we need to look at the culture that it inhabits and the efforts to claim challenge and reclaim the popular. Writing from a wide range of international contexts the contributors to <I>The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities</I> explore how populist masculinities are articulated and performed whether there is something problematic about a specifically masculine populism and whether there is hope for a pluralist inclusive even progressive form of masculine populism.</P><P>Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities’ international range of contributors explore how populist masculinities are articulated and performed whether there is something problematic about a specifically masculine populism and whether there is hope for a pluralist inclusive even progressive form of masculine populism.</P>