DoomsdaysCW<p>The Identity Politics of Masculinity as a Colonial Legacy</p><p>&quot;The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreColonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PreColonial</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indonesian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indonesian</span></a> notion of personhood diverges from a western conceptualisation and is expressed instead through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cooperation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cooperation</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mutuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mutuality</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sharing</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/caring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>caring</span></a>, and a readiness to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/negotiate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>negotiate</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/compromise" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>compromise</span></a> – all of which are characteristics that are associated with feminine qualities and were thus considered inferior according to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Eurocentric" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Eurocentric</span></a> understandings of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/subordination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>subordination</span></a> of women in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WesternSociety</span></a>&quot;</p><p>by Desi Dwi Prianti<br />03 Nov 2019</p><p>&quot;[In this paper] I argue that a hierarchical structure between masculine and the feminine was introduced by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dutch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dutch</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonisers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colonisers</span></a> – a structure in which they considered themselves to represent the superior, masculine side of the binary, whereas the colonised were seen as their effeminate subjects.&quot; </p><p><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2019.1675612#d1e112" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10</span><span class="invisible">80/07256868.2019.1675612#d1e112</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicMasculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ToxicMasculinity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>