Colonial feminization of subject men aimed at effeminizing and disempowering them

Evidence

As Revathi Krishnaswamy has shown in her study of colonial rule in India, ‘the real goal of feminization is effeminization – a process in which colonizing men use women/womanhood to delegitimize, discredit, and disempower colonized men.’ — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 150

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader work on colonial violence and on gender as political signaling (immodesty article). — connects to: Women leaving domesticity were branded masculine by those resisting change — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 661
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone working on colonial masculinity or gender studies.