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Pacific Men: how the feminist gap explains hostility
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Government.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Peace and Conflict Research.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5835-0618
2017 (English)In: The Pacific Review, ISSN 0951-2748, E-ISSN 1470-1332, Vol. 30, no 4, p. 478-493Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The gender gap in attitudes to foreign policy is well established in public opinion literature. Studies have repeatedly reported that women tend to be more peacefuland less militaristic than men. This article reexamines attitudes of individuals inrelation to foreign policy and pits the gender gap against the largely forgotten feminist gap. We argue that the individual-level relationship between gender equality attitudes on the one hand, and tolerance and benevolence on the other, is underresearched,but also that key contributions about the effects of feminism have beenmostly ignored in research on the gender gap in public opinion. We return to the notion of a causal relationship between gender equality attitudes, and peaceful attitudes, and of a feminist gap that also exists among men. In a series of novel empirical tests, we demonstrate that attitudes to gender equality, not biological sex, explain attitudes towards other nationalities and religious groups. Using individual level survey data from five countries around the Pacific: China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and the United States of America, we show that both men and women who reject gender equality are much more hostile both to other nations and to minorities in their own country.

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2017. Vol. 30, no 4, p. 478-493
Keywords [en]
attitudes, gender gap, foreign policy, feminism, men
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Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-314947DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2016.1264456ISI: 000401776900004OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-314947DiVA, id: diva2:1072270
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The East Asian Peace Since 1979: How Deep? How Can It be Explained?
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East Asian Peace Program, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, M10-0100:1Available from: 2017-02-07 Created: 2017-02-07 Last updated: 2020-07-01Bibliographically approved

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