Description
Product ID: | 9781138081529 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Gender and Comparative Politics |
Title: | The Racialization of Sexism |
Subtitle: | Men, Women and Gender in the Populist Radical Right |
Authors: | Author: Francesca Scrinzi |
Page Count: | 202 |
Subjects: | Feminism and feminist theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology, Politics and government, Political ideologies and movements, Political parties and party platforms, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology, Politics & government, Political ideologies, Political parties, Europe |
Description: | This book studies the Lega Nord in Italy and the Front national in France, and tackles how gender shapes the parties’ strategies as well as their activists’ experiences. It will be of interest to those studying gender, as well as nationalism, racism, social movements, radical politics and party politics. Populist radical right (PRR) parties are questioning women’s rights and sexual democracy. Yet paradoxically they appropriate issues of gender+ equality to attack migrants and to mobilize a growing number of women as voters and members, based on a ‘racialization of sexism’ discourse. This book engages with these puzzling developments in order to investigate the evolving ideologies of PRR parties and their understudied membership from a gender perspective. Why do men and women join these parties? How do they negotiate the gendered propaganda of their organizations? Do these parties mobilize their members in gender-specific ways? How is the PRR achieving growing political legitimacy through such renewed gendered ideologies? And how does its mainstreaming strategy articulate with gendered social change and the advent of new generations of activists? |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-12-05 |