The Evolving Security Landscape: Citizens’ Perceptions of Feminism as an Emerging Security Threat

Abstract In this article we explore how Swedish citizens perceive security threats, and threat perceptions overlap with ideology, trust demographics. The results show that concerns over threats are foremost connected to an authoritarian outlook. addition, four typical groups of orientations were identified. On the one end spectrum, found group anti-immigrant, anti-feminist anti-egalitarian opinions low confidence in media institutions. At other end, identified a dominated by women university degrees, who believe egalitarian tolerance display societal Even though findings line previous research on radical right globally, intrigued existence clearly defined respondents oppose feminism extent it is even seen as threat. This particularly striking given Sweden thought most equal countries world, government pursuing feminist foreign policy.