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Format: 1 online resource (320 p.)

ISBN: 9780271061719

Content: In Women of the Right, Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch bring together a groundbreaking collection of essays examining women in right-wing politics across the world, from the early twentieth-century white Afrikaner movement in South Africa to the supporters of Sarah Palin today. The volume introduces a truly global perspective on how women matter in the national and transnational links and exchanges of rightist politics. Suitable for classroom use, it sets a new agenda for scholarship on women on the right.Aside from the editors, the contributors are Nancy Aguirre, Karla J. Cunningham, Kirsten Delegard, Kathleen M. Fallon, Kate Hallgren, Randolph Hollingsworth, Jill Irvine, Vandana Joshi, Carol S. Lilly, Annette Linden, Julie Moreau, Margaret Power, Mariela Rubinzal, Daniella Sarnoff, Ronnee Schreiber, Meera Sehgal, Louise Vincent, and Veronica A. Wilson.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Acknowledgments -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Introduction -- , PART 1. TRANSNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES -- , 1. Transnational Connections Among Right-Wing Women: Brazil, Chile, and the United States -- , 2. Exporting the Culture Wars: Concerned Women for America in the Global Arena -- , 3. Memoirs of an Avatar: A Feminist Exploration of Right-Wing Worlds in SecondLife.com -- , 4. Righting Africa? Contextualizing Notions of Women’s Right-Wing Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa -- , 5. Gender, Islam, and Conservative Politics -- , 6. Women in Extreme Right Parties and Movements: A Comparison of the Netherlands and the United States -- , PART 2. PRIVATIZING THE PUBLIC, POLITICIZING THE PRIVATE -- , 7. Maternalism Goes to War: Class, Nativism, and Mothers’ Fight for Conscription in America’s First World War -- , 8 From Suffrage to Silence: The South African Afrikaner Nationalist Women’s Parties, 1915–1931 -- , 9. Porfi rista Femininity in Exile: Women’s Contributions to San Antonio’s La Prensa, 1913–1929 -- , 10. Domesticating Fascism: Family and Gender in French Fascist Leagues -- , 11. The Volksgemeinschaft and Its Female Denouncers in the Third Reich -- , 12. Mothering the Nation: Maternalist Frames in the Hindu Nationalist Movement in India -- , PART 3. COUNTERING THE LEFT -- , 13. “It Takes Women to Fight Women”: Woman Suffrage and the Genesis of Female Conservatism in the United States -- , 14. Women’s Work in Argentina’s Nationalist Lexicon, 1930–1943 -- , 15. “To Tell All My People”: Race, Representation, and John Birch Society Activist Julia Brown -- , 16. Leading the Nation: Extreme Right Women Leaders Among the Serbs -- , 17 Dilemmas of Representation: Conservative and Feminist Women’s Organizations React to Sarah Palin -- , Selected Bibliography -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780271061719

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271061719