“NOT A BOY, BUT A MAN”: ON THE GENDER-AGE STEREOTYPES IN POLITICS Cover Image

“…СЛЫШУ РЕЧЬ НЕ МАЛЬЧИКА, НО МУЖА“: О ГЕНДЕРНО-ВОЗРАСТНЫХ СТЕРЕОТИПАХ В ПОЛИТИКЕ
“NOT A BOY, BUT A MAN”: ON THE GENDER-AGE STEREOTYPES IN POLITICS

Author(s): Tatjana Borisovna Riabova, Oleg Vjacheslavovich Riabov
Subject(s): Politics, Gender Studies, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: political symbol; gender-age stereotypes; symbolic infantilization; Russian politics; legitimation of power;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with intersections of the gender stereotypes and age ones and their role in politics. Its first part focuses on theoretical issues of politicizing the age, and the second part analyzes the gender-age stereotypes in Russian politics. The authors point out that “gender” of power relates to its “age”, and symbolic infantilization of a political opponent serves as a means of his/her symbolic demasculinization and by that delegitimation.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 5-13
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian