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Toxic masculinity : militarism, deal-making and the performance of Brexit
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Achilleos-Sarll, Columba-Isabella and Martill, Benjamin (2019) Toxic masculinity : militarism, deal-making and the performance of Brexit. In: Dustin, Moira and Ferreira, Nuno and Millns, Susan, (eds.) Gender and Queers Perspectives on Brexit. Gender and Politics . Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 15-44. ISBN 9783030031213
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Abstract
This chapter argues that the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union (EU) and the subsequent Brexit process have been dominated by discourses of toxic masculinity, manifesting in two distinct ways: first through the deployment of language that was associated with deal-making and, second through the deployment of language associated with militarism. Drawing on a combination of critical feminist theory, documentary analysis and elite, semi-structured interviews with individuals close to the process, this chapter demonstrates the extent to which Brexit has been dominated by discourses of militarism, which highlighted Britain’s assumed global role in the world emphasising strength, security and global power, and deal-making discourses which have equated the negotiations to a business transaction, positioning Anglo-European negotiations in conflictual terms. We conclude with four potential (gendered) consequences of this discourse.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Series Name: | Gender and Politics | ||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
Place of Publication: | Cham, Switzerland | ||||
ISBN: | 9783030031213 | ||||
ISSN: | 978-3-030-03122-0 | ||||
Book Title: | Gender and Queers Perspectives on Brexit | ||||
Editor: | Dustin, Moira and Ferreira, Nuno and Millns, Susan | ||||
Official Date: | 5 January 2019 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 15-44 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-03122-0 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Gender and Queers Perspectives on Brexit. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03122-0 | ||||
Copyright Holders: | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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