{"id":4045,"date":"2018-10-08T12:11:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/masculinity-and-power"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:04:24","slug":"masculinity-and-power","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/masculinity-and-power","title":{"rendered":"MASCULINITY AND POWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elleke Boehmer<\/strong>, Professor of World Literature in English in the English Faculty, University of Oxford, and currently Director of the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). She is a founding figure in the field of colonial and postcolonial studies, and internationally known for her research in anglophone literatures of empire and anti-empire. She is an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, most recently of The Shouting in the Dark (2015).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tessa Szyszkowitz<\/strong>, journalist and author<\/p>\n<p>Why do men commit these crimes? \u201cBecause they can,\u201d says Elleke Boehmer. \u201cIt's still in some senses socially sanctioned. Male violence against women is triggered by feelings of defensiveness, threat and insecurity.\u201d She links some of the phenomenon to men losing their position as breadwinner, or their sense of power. \u201cSo you lash out in the way you know best, that has been socially sanctioned in the past.\u201d Deindustrialisation, change of political regime, conflict - \u201cIn the end, it leads to women's bodies bearing the brunt of male violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Philoxenia is a new lecture series curated by the London based Austrian journalist and author Tessa Szyszkowitz. 2016 was the year when fear, xenophobia and right wing populism upstaged rationality. 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