Female leaders in a radical right movement: the Latvian National Front

Stašulāne, Anita

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“…As Campbell and Winters (2008, p. 64) reflect, it is a ‘well‐known fact’ that girls are socialised into displaying ‘an interconnected sense of self’ while boys are encouraged to be ‘autonomous actors’. Furthermore, the idea that women typically organise in a more ‘democratic’ way reinforces the notion that they ‘favour intergroup relations to be equal rather than hierarchical’ (Stasulane, 2019, p. 59). The assumption that women are less interested in politics also haunts work on gender and the far right.…”

Section: Women and Political Interestmentioning

confidence: 92%

Women's engagement with the far right: A quest for a more holistic understanding

Williams

2024

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The idea that women do not support the far right endures despite the contemporary resurgence and global electoral successes of the far right in its many guises. The aim of this article is to critically interrogate four dominant assumptions surrounding women's alleged lack of support for the far right and unpack whether they ‘tell’ researchers anything new about this support or merely consolidate existing blind spots in the scholarly literature on the topic. The article makes the case that for researchers to understand women's far‐right support, they must take a more holistic approach to the topic of gender and political behaviour, and pay closer attention not only to the socio‐cultural, historical, and political factors which underpin far‐right support in this context, but the different ways in which some women ‘do’ politics in order to make their voices heard.

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Section: Women and Political Interestmentioning

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Women's engagement with the far right: A quest for a more holistic understanding

Williams

2024

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“…In this way, far-right and conservative-right female politicians establish themselves in politics, while promoting right-wing nationalist parties’ agendas. Studying Latvia, Stasulane (2017) shows how feminism’s achievements, like women’s increased participation in sociopolitical developments and financial independence have facilitated and are reflected in, women’s increased and active involvement in the Latvian National Front (LNF). This has changed traditional gender roles in the party and has enabled some women to establish themselves as important political agents within the LNF.…”

Section: Women Gender and The Far Rightmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4 However, a full consideration of that literature is beyond the scope of this article. What is important for the purposes of this article is that the literature offers ample evidence that, in Europe and elsewhere, gender has become one of the central axes around which the transformation of the far right is taking place, and that the far right has risen to power often through strategically employing gender, sexual orientation and gender identity equality discourses and policies (Ahrens et al, 2018; Akkerman, 2015; Farris, 2017; Sprengholz, 2021; Stasulane, 2017; Verloo and Paternotte, 2018). Not all rightist parties adopt the same positions on gender and gender equality, as national political context particularities influence their choices (Akkerman, 2015; Askola, 2019; Sauer et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Agency is a crucial frame for understanding how actors enact their politics and what the potential impact of that politics is. Therefore, the question of far-right women’s political agency and of their perspectives on, and uses of, gender, gender equality and feminism, goes to the heart of a major challenge that contemporary feminism and pluralist democracy face (Arfini et al, 2019; Sprengholz, 2021; Stasulane, 2017).…”

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“…The literature on the gender dimension of far-right politics has established the constitutive role of gender and women’s involvement in the far right (Arfini et al, 2019; Askola, 2019; Stasulane, 2017). It has also pointed to remaining gaps in knowledge that include how far-right women negotiate and condition their agency within their parties, and how they relate to gender, gender equality and feminism (Mulinari and Neergaard, 2014; Pettersson, 2017).…”

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Feminism contested and co-opted: Women, agency and politics of gender in the Greek and Greek-Cypriot far right

Kamenou

2023

European Journal of Women's Studies

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The literature on the gender dimension of far-right politics has established the constitutive role of gender and women’s involvement in the far right. However, knowledge about how far-right women negotiate and condition their agency within their parties and how they relate to gender, gender equality and feminism remains limited. This article builds on literature on conservative and far-right women’s agency, and on feminism’s employment by the far right. Based on interviews with female politicians and seasoned activists of the Greek Golden Dawn and the Greek-Cypriot National Popular Front, it examines how highly engaged far-right women construct their political agency at the intersections of often contradictory discourses and how, in doing so, they impact understandings of gender, gender equality and feminism. The analysis of the interview material identifies three different formulations of political agency the participants refer to: radical motherhood; female political militancy/political militant femininity and troubling of far-right gender roles. I argue that these different formulations of political agency show how, by using elements of feminism, far-right women construct flexible and versatile far-right gender discourses, which challenge gender essentialist positions that their parties convey. Moreover, they challenge delineations of far-right women’s political agency based on the compliance/(feminist) resistance dichotomy and expose the processes through which far-right women contest feminism by drawing on it. The article further argues that these formulations of political agency and far-right gender discourses may contribute to the far right’s appeal among women with diverse views on gender, gender equality, feminism and politics, as they may respond to an array of interests and demands that can be made from many different positions. Therefore, beyond contributing to discussions about the role of women, gender and feminism in far-right politics, the article demonstrates the importance of studying far-right women’s views for gaining a well-rounded understanding of this issue.

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Female leaders in a radical right movement: the Latvian National Front

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Women's engagement with the far right: A quest for a more holistic understanding

Women's engagement with the far right: A quest for a more holistic understanding

Feminism contested and co-opted: Women, agency and politics of gender in the Greek and Greek-Cypriot far right

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