... was seen as a catalyst for the events which followed. In both riots, gender and intersectional politics were both evident in the nature of the riots and in the discourse and language employed by rioters and the media. The process of gendering occurs when males and females are constructed as masculine and feminine through social norms and discourse. In the case of ... femininity and masculinity which oppose social norms such as violence and peacekeeping. Feminist readings such as that of Brenner (2000) are further of use because they highlight the intersectionality of gendered processes,...

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