Right‐Wing Women's Movements

Abstract

Right‐wing women's movements encompass a variety of past and current, social and political movements and groups, organized across the world, autonomously, or as women's sections of larger organizations (such as political parties), whose composition is solely or mostly made up of women informed by a variety of right‐wing ideologies and active participants in right‐wing action. Right‐wing women's movements have often been organized around a combined number of right‐wing issues, including active support of fascist and authoritarian regimes, anti‐communism, racism, and conservative religious values, Christian, Hindu, or Islamic. In the last decades, right‐wing women's organizations have rallied around social conservative issues (such as against abortion rights), but also engaged in the promotion of neoliberal, pro‐market, and anti‐state roles in the economy and social policies. These right‐wing segments of the women's movement and organizations have promoted traditional gender roles and ideology, and have been, most often but not always, anti‐feminist.