Right-Wing Populism and Gender: European Perspectives and Beyond (Gender Studies)

While research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming, a systematic study of the intersection of right-wing populism and gender is still missing, even though gender issues are ubiquitous in discourses of the radical right ranging from »ethnosexism« against immigrants, to »anti-genderism.« This volume shows that the intersectionality of gender, race and class is constitutional for radical right discourse. From different European perspectives, the contributions investigate the ways in which gender is used as a meta-language, strategic tool and »affective bridge« for ordering and hierarchizing political objectives in the discourse of the diverse actors of the »right-wing complex.« Cover Contents Right-Wing Populism and Gender: A Preliminary Cartography of an Emergent Field of Research Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism as Masculinist Identity Politics. The Role of Affects Why Gender and Sexuality are both Trivial and Pivotal in Populist Radical Right Politics Sexual Politics from the Right.Attacks on Gender, Sexual Diversity, and Sex Education Post-Socialist Conditions and the Orbán Government’s Gender Politics between 2010 and 2019 in Hungary Man, Woman, Family. Gender and the Limited Modernization of Right-Wing Extremism in Austria Sexual Politics as a Tool to “Un-Demonize”Right-Wing Discourses in France Identitarian Gays and Threatening Queers,Or: How the Far Right Constructs New Chains of Equivalence Why Are Women Attracted to Right-Wing Populism? Sexual Exceptionalism, Emancipation Fatigue, and New Maternalism Populist Mobilizations in Re-Traditionalized Society: Anti-Gender Campaigning in Slovenia ‘You’re Fired!’ Retrotopian Desire and Right-Wing Class Politics The Alternative Right, Masculinities, and Ordinary Affect Angry Women: Poland’s Black Protests as ‘Populist Feminism’ Intersectionality Strikes Back: Right-Wing Patterns of En-Gendering and Feminist Contestations in the Americas Acknowledgements List of image sources Authors While research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming, a systematic study of the intersection of right-wing populism and gender is still missing, even though gender issues are ubiquitous in discourses of the radical right ranging from »ethnosexism« against immigrants, to »anti-genderism.« This volume shows that the intersectionality of gender, race and class is constitutional for radical right discourse. From different European perspectives, the contributions investigate the ways in which gender is used as a meta-language, strategic tool and »affective bridge« for ordering and hierarchizing political objectives in the discourse of the diverse actors of the »right-wing complex.« Right-Wing Populism,Populism and Gender,Anti-Genderism,Anti-Muslim Racism,Sexual Politics,Gender,Politics,Gender Studies,Political Ideologies,Right-wing Extremism,Bielefeld University Press,Diagnosis of Our Time,Political Science,Cultural Studies Biographical note: Gabriele Dietze (PD Dr.) has taught Cultural, Media and Gender Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, as well as in Austria, Switzerland and the US. Currently she is Harris Guest Professor at Dartmouth 2020. Her research focuses on race, migration, and populism.Julia Roth (Prof. Dr.) is a professor for American Studies with a focus on Gender Studies at Bielefeld University. She was post-doc of the BMBF-sponsored research networks >>desi-guALdades.net< >The Americas as Space of Entanglements>ethnosexism< >anti-genderism.< >affective bridge< >right-wing complex.