🚨 New in Journal of Gender Studies: We consider how the concept of “backlash” can flatten and frame masculinist responses as merely reactive; we suggest “countermovement” better captures how masculinities are strategically organised
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This paper proposes a reconsideration of backlash as the dominant frame for analysing resistance to gender equality. Widely used to describe reactionary responses to feminist progress, the term oft...