- Title
- "Manning up" with Pauline Hanson: playing the gender card, again
- Creator
- Jose, Jim
- Relation
- The rise of right-populism: Pauline Hanson's One Nation and Australian politics p. 167-178
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2670-7_8
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Pauline Hanson's strategy of "manning up" provides an opportunity to explore a different view of what it means to play the gender card. Hanson presents herself as an anti-politician, an ordinary woman whose claim to political authenticity is as someone who stands outside the circuits of the so-called political class of professional politicians. At the same time, she positions herself explicitly within a recognizably masculinist style of politics. Hence her embrace of an anti-political identity is argued here as a particular politics of embodied power predicated on playing the gender card. A brief discussion of the idea of "playing the gender card" provides a background context for the subsequent discussion of her views as expressed within Pauline Hanson's One Nation's political platform in 1998 and 2016, and the relevant parts of her debut speeches to the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively. This establishes a degree of continuity in her politics as well as how she has positioned herself politically, and hence demonstrates the centrality of her "manning up" strategy as a form of playing the gender card.
- Subject
- Australian politics; gender card; gender politics; manning up; Pauline Hanson
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445681
- Identifier
- uon:42643
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811326707
- Language
- eng
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