Although Brexit campaigns mobilized discourses of hegemonic masculinity that marginalize women, women seemed to be at the forefront of pro-EU campaigns post-referendum. I explore to what extent pro-EU activists make claims to EU citizenship that contest the masculinities of Brexit. Combining Isin's approach to citizenship as ‘performed subject positions’ with intersectional feminist theory, I argue that masculinity became a site of EU citizenship contestation, which nevertheless reproduced racialized and class-based exclusions. Drawing on interviews with grassroots pro-EU activists, I argue that activists reject militaristic discourses of British identity by asserting multiple embodied identities, demand rights relating to the intimate sphere, and participate in informal, local and non-hierarchical ways. Yet, they reveal a white cultural European identity, a European exceptionalism in demands for rights, and a failure to break with the whiteness of traditional social movements. These findings demonstrate the need for feminist and intersectional analysis within EU public opinion research.

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竞争英国退欧男子气概：亲欧洲活动家和女权主义欧盟公民身份*

尽管英国脱欧运动动员了将女性边缘化的霸权男性气质的话语，但女性似乎处于公投后亲欧盟运动的最前沿。我探讨了亲欧盟活动家在多大程度上声称欧盟公民身份与英国退欧的男子气概相抗衡。将伊辛将公民身份视为“表现主体立场”的方法与交叉女权主义理论相结合，我认为男性气质成为了欧盟公民身份竞争的场所，尽管如此，它还是再现了种族化和基于阶级的排斥。通过对基层亲欧盟活动人士的采访，我认为活动人士通过主张多重体现身份、要求与亲密领域相关的权利以及以非正式、地方和非等级的方式参与来拒绝关于英国身份的军国主义话语。然而，它们揭示了一种白人文化的欧洲身份，一种对权利要求的欧洲例外主义，以及未能打破传统社会运动的白人特征。这些发现表明，在欧盟舆论研究中需要进行女权主义和交叉分析。