The racialization of sexism: men, women and gender in the populist radical right
Introduction: Gender and the mainstreaming of the far right -- Beyond the 'mothers of the nation' and the 'brothers in arms': Challenging the gender bias of research on the far right -- The racialization of sexism: Framings of gender and sexuality in the Lega Nord and the Front n...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Routledge,
2024
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Gender and the mainstreaming of the far right -- Beyond the 'mothers of the nation' and the 'brothers in arms': Challenging the gender bias of research on the far right -- The racialization of sexism: Framings of gender and sexuality in the Lega Nord and the Front national -- Mobilizing women and men in the Lega Nord and the Front national -- PRR women negotiating gender (in)equality and feminism -- Gendered trajectories of PRR women and men: Caring for the nation -- Gender reproduction and change in PRR politics -- Conclusion. "Populist radical right (PRR) parties are questioning women's rights and sexual democracy. Yet paradoxically they appropriate issues of gender+ equality to attack the migrants and to mobilize a growing number of women as voters and members, based on a 'racialization of sexism' discourse. This book engages with these puzzling developments, in order to investigate the evolving ideologies of PRR parties and their understudied membership from a gender perspective. Why do men and women join these parties? How do they negotiate the gendered propaganda of their organizations? Do these parties mobilize their members in gender-specific ways? How is the PRR achieving growing political legitimacy through such renewed gendered ideologies? And how does its mainstreaming strategy articulate with gendered social change and the advent of new generations of activists? Drawing on a two-year comparative and intersectional study of the Lega (Nord) in Italy and the Front national (now Rassemblement national) in France, and based on over 100 activists' life histories, The Racialization of Sexism tackles how gender, at the interplay with class, ethnicity, age and religion shapes the parties' strategies as well as their activists' experiences; and how gender relations are transformed in unconventional ways within these parties. This book will be of interest to those studying gender, as well as nationalism, racism, social movements, radical politics and party politics"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781315112831 1315112833 9781351623209 1351623206 9781351623216 1351623214 9781351623223 1351623222 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781315112831 |