An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the role of women in right-wing political activism around the world, from the Afrikaner movement in South Africa in the early twentieth century to the supporters of Sarah Palin in the United States.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch
PART 1 TRANSNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES
1 Transnational Connections Among Right-Wing Women: Brazil, Chile, and the United States
Margaret Power
2 Exporting the Culture Wars: Concerned Women for America in the Global Arena
Jill A. Irvine
3 Memoirs of an Avatar: A Feminist Exploration of Right-Wing Worlds in SecondLife.com
Randolph Hollingsworth
4 Righting Africa? Contextualizing Notions of Women’s Right-Wing Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kathleen M. Fallon and Julie Moreau
5 Gender, Islam, and Conservative Politics
Karla J. Cunningham
6 Women in Extreme Right Parties and Movements: A Comparison of the Netherlands and the United States
Kathleen M. Blee and Annette Linden
PART 2 PRIVATIZING THE PUBLIC, POLITICIZING THE PRIVATE
7 Maternalism Goes to War: Class, Nativism, and Mothers’ Fight for Conscription in America’s First World War
Kate Hallgren
8 From Suffrage to Silence: The South African Afrikaner Nationalist Women’s Parties, 1915–1931
Louise Vincent
9 Porfirista Femininity in Exile: Women’s Contributions to San Antonio’s La Prensa, 1913–1929
Nancy Aguirre
10 Domesticating Fascism: Family and Gender in French Fascist Leagues
Daniella Sarnoff
11 The Volksgemeinschaft and Its Female Denouncers in the Third Reich
Vandana Joshi
12 Mothering the Nation: Maternalist Frames in the Hindu Nationalist Movement in India
Meera Sehgal
PART 3 COUNTERING THE LEFT
13 “It Takes Women to Fight Women”: Woman Suffrage and the Genesis of Female Conservatism in the United States
Kirsten Delegard
14 Women’s Work in Argentina’s Nationalist Lexicon, 1930–1943
Mariela Rubinzal
15 “To Tell All My People”: Race, Representation, and John Birch Society Activist Julia Brown
Veronica A. Wilson
16 Leading the Nation: Extreme Right Women Leaders Among the Serbs
Carol S. Lilly and Jill A. Irvine
17 Dilemmas of Representation: Conservative and Feminist Women’s Organizations React to Sarah Palin
Ronnee Schreiber
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
“[Women of the Right makes] compelling reading on a still-fresh topic in women’s history.”