Wronged and Dangerous

Karen Lee Ashcraft is Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder. She grew up in the lap of evangelical populism, and her research examines how gender interacts with race, class, sexuality, and more to shape organizational and cultural politics.

“Connecting the pandemic-like spread of right-wing populism with aggrieved masculinity (i.e. “a seething sense of rightful virility wrongly denied”), Ashcraft’s Wronged and Dangerous makes a convincing argument for shifting studies of populism away from only considering issues of class.” Love Reading

• IntroductionPart 1: Gender as an Acquired Taste1. Reality in Hard and Soft2. Strongmen versus Sober Women3. From Binary to Biodiversity4. Of Masks and Men5. Gender as a Matter of Life and DeathPart 2: The Feel of New Populisms6. This Is Populism7. Crash Course8. New Populism9. Anger, Downrising10. The Problem with Anger ManagementPart 3: Probable Cause11. Class and Culture, of Course12. Aggrieved Masculinity as Animation13. Perish the Thought of Gender14. Identity Politics for the Universal Human15. Not Another Masculinity CrisisPart 4: Virality and Virility16. Culture Wars Can Kill17. Dear Manosphere18. Metaphor Matters: Poison or Pandemic?19. Identity Politics 2.020. We the Sleepwalkers