Masculinities in Transition and Political Behavior

Abstract

This panel examines the conditions under which masculinities are destabilized, reconfigured, and politicized in contemporary societies. The papers analyze how environmental change, economic restructuring, occupational location, and gendered attitudes reshape male identities and their relationship to politics. Empirical evidence ranges from climate-induced agricultural decline in rural India, through everyday political disengagement and ambivalence among working-class men in post-industrial England, to cross-national patterns linking occupational masculinity with radical right support in Europe. Further contributions show how sexism toward both women and men structures voting behavior and support for discriminatory policies, and how new, multidimensional measures of femininity and masculinity can better capture these dynamics. Taken together, the papers highlight masculinity as a contingent and context-dependent factor in political behavior, demonstrating how shifts in material conditions, social status, and gendered meanings shape political alignments and polarization.

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Agriculture and Patriarchy: Growing and Severing the Roots of Male Dominance	View Paper Details
Masculinities beyond the ballot box: working-class men and the everyday politics of place	View Paper Details
The 'Man Question' in Voting Behaviour	View Paper Details
Varieties of Femininity and Masculinity and How They Influence Well-Being, Polarization, and Political Attitudes	View Paper Details
Two sides of the same coin? Sexism toward women and men as predictors of voting and policy attitudes	View Paper Details