Patriarchal pacts in the neo-archaic manosphere: warband brotherhoods as fascist masculinity.
This paper situates contemporary manospheric culture within archaic forms of masculine identity formation foundational to patriarchal political orders and fascism. What happens when 21 century emergent masculinity is also what Deleuze and Guattari call a neo-archaism? Drawing from Celia Amoros' unde...
| Published in: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 34; no. 6; pp. 833 - 848 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2025
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