Right-wing women : from conservatives to extremists around the world / edited by Paola Bacchette and Margaret Power.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bacchetta, P. (Paola)

Power, Margaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservatism.

Right-wing extremists--History.

Right-wing extremists.

Women in public life--History.

Women in public life.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 328 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Contents:

Part I. Agency/Subjectivity/Subject Positions

1. She Loved Mussolini: Margherita Sarfatti and Italian Fascism / Carole C. Gallucci 19

2. Female "Fanatics": Women's Sphere in the British Union of Fascists / Julie V. Gottlieb 29

3. Hindu Nationalist Women Imagine Spatialities/Imagine Themselves: Reflections on Gender-Supplemental-Agency / Paola Bacchetta 43

4. Framing Volksmoeders: The Politics of Female Afrikaner Nationalists, 1904-c. 1930 / Marijke du Toit 57

5. Whose Virtue Is This? The Virtue Party and Women in Islamist Politics in Turkey / Ayse Saktanber 71

6. "And We Ate Up the World": Memories of the Seccion Femenina / Victoria L. Enders 85

Part II. Right Activisms and Racialized/Classed/Religioned Others

7. The Gendered Organization of Hate: Women in the U.S. Ku Klux Klan / Kathleen M. Blee 101

8. Charity and Nationalism: The Greek Civil War and the Entrance of Right-Wing Women into Politics / Tasoula Vervenioti 115

9. Far-Right Women in France: The Case of the National Front Translated from the French by Paola Bacchetta / Claudie Lesselier 127

10. Women in the Non-Nazi Right during the Weimar Republic: The German Nationalist People's Party (DNVP) / Raffael Scheck 141

11. Spartan Mothers: Fascist Women in Brazil in the 1930s / Sandra McGee Deutsch 155

12. The Feminine "Apostolate in Society" versus the Secular State: The Union Femenina Catolica Mexicana, 1929-1940 / Kristina A. Boylan 169

13. Foreign Women in Spain for General Franco during the Spanish Civil War / Judith Keene 183

Part III. Interrogations: Right-Thinking, Feminisms, and the Left

14. Pauline and Other Perils: Women in Australian Right-Wing Politics / Bronwyn Winter 197

15. Playing "Femball": Conservative Women's Organizations and Political Representation in the United States / Ronnee Schreiber 211

16. Islamisms and Feminism in Egypt: Three Generations of Women's Perspectives / Azza Karam 225

Part IV. Righted Bodies: Discipline, Excess, Pleasure

17. Confronting Double Patriarchy: Islamist Women in Turkey / Burcak Keskin 245

18. Queering Hindutva: Unruly Bodies and Pleasures in Sadhavi Rithambara's Performances / Bishnupriya Ghosh 259

19. Right-Wing Women, Sexuality, and Politics in Chile during the Pinochet Dictatorship, 1973-1990 / Margaret Power 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-310) and index.

ISBN:

0415927773

0415927781

OCLC:

48851496