From the Cold War to the manosphere

Abstract Since the end of the Cold War and the rise of new right‐wing political movements across Europe, the US, and elsewhere, gender has taken on heightened political and social significance. To better understand this phenomenon, AE ’s editors interview two specialists on contemporary gender: Greg Downey, a psychological anthropologist, and Kristen R. Ghodsee, an ethnographer and historian of socialist and postsocialist women's struggle for equal rights. Herein, they discuss the rise of the manosphere, the American trad‐wife movement and its eastern European counterpart, and what both of these have to do with economic‐political upheavals and the rise of militarization in the US and Europe.