Abstract. Gender issues have moved to the centre of electoral politics in many democracies, driven by feminist mobilization on one side and anti-gender backlash on the other. Yet we know relatively little about which specific gender-related attitudes shape vote choice and why some gender policies become electorally consequential while others do not. This paper addresses these questions through an analysis of the July 2023 Spanish general election, combining a post-election survey with systematic analysis of party messaging.

Abstract. This article examines the affective politicization of the manosphere, focusing on how a discourse of dis/affect shapes its political imaginaries. This theory-building piece with ethnographic insight conceptualizes the manosphere as an affective space embedded in digital affect culture. Drawing on theories of disaffection as a politics of feeling, the article argues that manospheric actors appropriate and rearticulate the affective logic of disaffection through narratives of male grievance, dispossession and perceived victimization.