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