Right-Wing Populism and Gender

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.'

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 is a professor of American studies with a focus on gender studies and director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Universität Bielefeld, where she is also PI of the graduate school 'Experiencing Gender'. Her research interests are gender approaches, intersectionality theorising, gender and citizenship, right-wing populism and gender, migrant knowledges and new feminist movements.