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Afterword: whither gender and the far right?

Pages 487-492 | Published online: 05 Jan 2021
 

ABSTRACT

This afterward synthesizes the primary arguments of each of the contributors to this volume, and suggests several next steps for analyses of gender and the far right. The chapter suggests that there is a need for more serious inquiry in four domains: on the intersections of extremism and gender-based violence, on how gender relates to subcultural and place-based challenges in terms of where women encounter extremist messages and first enter far-right scenes; comparative work on religion and far-right extremism, including more analyses of evangelical Christianity, and the inclusion of more work on gender-based efforts to counter far-right mobilization.

Disclosure statement

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Notes on contributors

Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at the American University in Washington, DC, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) in the Center for University Excellence (CUE). Her most recent books are Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (Princeton University Press, 2020) and The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton University Press, 2018). She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. (magna cum laude) in Sociology and German Area Studies from Cornell University.

Notes

1 See, e.g., Cas Mudde, ‘The Populist Zeitgeist’, Government and Opposition, 39:4 (2004), pp. 541–563; Eric Taylor Woods, Robert Schertzer, Leah Greenfeld, Christopher Hughes & Cynthia Miller-Idriss, ‘COVID-19 and Nationalism: A Scholarly Exchange’, Nations and Nationalism 2020, https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12644

2 Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (New York: Crown, 2020).

3 Alex DiBranco,‘Male Supremacist Violence as a Rising Threat’, (The Hague: International Center for Counterterrorism, 2020). Available at: https://icct.nl/publication/male-supremacist-terrorism-as-a-rising-threat/; Mark Greene, The Little #MeToo Book for Men (New York: ThinkPlay Partners, 2018).

4 See Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018); Kathleen Blee, ‘Similarities/Differences in Gender and Far-Right Politics in Europe and the USA’, in Michaela Köttig, Renate Bitzan, and Andrea Pető (eds) Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 191–204; Kathleen Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991); Kathleen Blee, Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

5 Anne Bonds, ‘Race and Ethnicity II: White Women and the Possessive Geographies of White Supremacy’, Progress in Human Geography, (2019). doi:10.1177/0309132519863479; Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020).

6 Philip Gorski, ‘Why Evangelicals Voted for Trump: A Critical Cultural Sociology’, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 5 (2017), pp. 338–354.

7 Sarah Franklin and Faye Ginsberg, ‘Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit’, Cultural Anthropology, 34:1 (2019), pp. 3–9, at p. 4; Cynthia Miller-Idriss, ‘In Whose Interest? Gender and Far-Right Politics in the U.S.’ Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Report, October 2020. Available at: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/usa/16648.pdf

8 See Cynthia Miller-Idriss, ‘The Global Dimensions of Nationalist Populism’, The International Spectator, 54:2 (2019), pp. 17–34; Woods, Schertzer, Greenfeld, Hughes, and Miller-Idriss, op.cit.

9 See, e.g., Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Hilary Pilkington, Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right: Mechanisms of Transmission and the Role of Educational Interventions (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020).

10 Cynthia Miller-Idriss, ‘In Whose Interest?’ October 2020.

11 Monk-Turner Elizabeth, ‘White Evangelical Activism and the Gender Divide in the 2016 Presidential Election’, Society, 57 (2020), pp. 30–40, at p. 30.

12 Franklin, Sarah and Faye Ginsberg, ‘Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit’, Cultural Anthropology, 34:1(2019), pp. 3–9; Cynthia Miller-Idriss, ‘In Whose Interest?’ October 2020; see also Erin C. Cassese and Tiffany D. Barnes, ‘Reconciling Sexism and Women’s Support for Republican Candidates: A Look at Gender, Class, and Whiteness in the 2012 and 2016 Presidential Races’, Political Behavior, 41 (2019),pp. 677–700.

13 Sarah Posner, Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump (New York: Random House, 2020) at p. xv.

14 Anatol Magdziarz and Marc Santora, ‘Women Converge on Warsaw, Heightening Poland’s Largest Protests in Decades’, The New York Times, 31 October 2020.

15 Cynthia Miller-Idriss, ‘In Whose Interest?’

16 Rebecca Traister, ‘The Complicated, Controversial, Historic, Inspiring Women’s March.’ The Cut, 20 January 2017. Available at: https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/the-complicated-controversial-inspiring-womens-march.html; Abby Vesoulis, ‘Women First Marched to Challenge Trump. Now They Are Challenging Each Other’, Time, 19 January 2019.

17 Kimberly Ann and Bev Barnum, ‘Interview with Bev Barnum: Wall of Moms’ Organizer on the Political Power of Maternal Rage’, Left Voice, 23 July 2020. Available at: https://www.leftvoice.org/interview-with-bev-barnum-wall-of-moms-organizer-on-the-political-power-of-maternal-rage; Cynthia Miller-Idriss, ‘In Whose Interest?’

18 Nina Totenberg, ‘Supreme Court Delivers Major Victory to LGBTQ Employees.’ National Public Radio, 15 June 2020. Available at: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/863498848/supreme-court-delivers-major-victory-to-lgbtq-employees, accessed 31 August 2020 .

19 Keven Johnson and Kristine Phillips, ‘George Floyd Protests: Lawsuits Extend Fight Against Police Brutality from Streets to Courtrooms’, USA Today, 11 August 2020.

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