The instrumentalization of Gender and Sexuality in the far-right: Femonationalism, antigenderism, and racism

Dr. Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar

MA-Seminar: MASS: Migration, Ethnizität, Ethnozentrismus

3/6/9 ECTS

Mi, 11:15 - 12:45 Uhr

Ort: GD 205

Veranstaltungsbeginn: 18.10.2023

In recent decades different far right actors across Europe in particular and the West at large have depicted themselves as staunch supporters of women’s rights, feminism, and sexual diversity despite the fact that, simultaneously, these same political actors hold misogynist, homophobic, and conservative views, while advancing policies against those feminist agendas they allegedly stand for. Against this background, different scholar have analyzed such instrumentalization of gender and sexuality against the strengthening of different empirical manifestations of racism. The MA Seminar: the instrumentalization of Gender and Sexuality in the far-right: Femonationalism, antigenderism, and racism, centers on these political and academic debates. It seeks to analytically understand the different ways in which far right political actors across Europe have strategically deployed ‘support’ to feminism in order to advance racism.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
Each session is structured around one or two compulsory reading. Before each session students are required to read the mandatory texts and write one page reflection on the readings, these should be send one day before each session to the lecturer. The refelections will serve to organise discussions in class. There are additional readings for each session, these are not mandatory, but can serve to further interrogate issues of the session, and as additional readings for the final essay. Furthermore, during the seminar, students will present the topic of the session, followed by the group discussion. The presentations should comprise groups of 2 or 3 students addressing and engaging with all of the texts of the session, everyone in the presenting team should prepare and present the main ideas of the texts, while critically engaging with the content. Finally, and depending on the number of ECTS required, the students can submit a final essay of at the end of the seminar.

Literatur:
Bock, G. (1983). Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany: Motherhood, Compulsory Sterilization, and the State. Signs, 8, 400–421. https://doi.org/10.2307/3173945. Blee, K. M. (2021). Women in white supremacist extremism. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 4(2), 315–317. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510821X16140911385376. Farris, Sarah. 2017. In the Name of Women’s Rights. Durham: Duke University Press. Dietze, G., & Roth, J. (2020). Right-Wing Populism and Gender: A Preliminary Cartography of an Emergent Field of Research. 7–22. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839449806-001. Hark, S., & Villa, P.-I. (2020). The Future of Difference Beyond the Toxic Entanglement of Racism, Sexism and Feminism. Verso. Chapter 1 & 4

Sprache: Englisch