This gendering of the riots emphasised feminine domesticity – the protecting of homes and places of work – in the face of young male violence (Mainardi, 1970). ... Young males who are unable to fulfil their male role as workers are therefore reconstructed as an idle, criminal and socially excluded 'under class,' and this is a reading which can be applied both to the events of London and Ferguson and to the discourse which shaped them. ... This social class element and geographic model of the riots drew attention to some intersectionality, but also removed gender and rac...

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