Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe
How did far-right, hateful and anti-democratic ideologies become so successful in many societies in Europe? This volume analyses the paradoxical roles sexual politics have played in this process and reveals that the incoherence and untruthfulness in right-wing populist, ultraconservative and far-right rhetorics of fear are not necessarily signs of weakness. Instead, the authors show how the far right can profit from its own incoherence by generating fear and creating discourses of crisis for which they are ready to offer simple solutions. In studies on Poland, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Austria, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Portugal, France, Sweden and Russia, the ways far-right ideologies travel and take root are analysed from a multi-disciplinary perspective, including feminist and LGBTQI reactions. Understanding how hateful and antidemocratic ideologies enter the very centre of European societies is a necessary premise for developing successful counterstrategies.
Table of contents (10 chapters)
Paradoxes That Matter: Introducing Critical Perspectives on Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe
Cornelia Möser, Jennifer Ramme, Judit Takács
Pages 1-24
“We Don’t Want Rainbow Terror”: Religious and Far-Right Sexual Politics in Poland and Spain
Monica Cornejo-Valle, Jennifer Ramme
Pages 25-60
Nothing from Them: LGBTQI+ Rights and Portuguese Exceptionalism in Troubled Times
Ana Cristina Santos
Pages 61-85
The Sexual Politics of National Secularisms in Sweden and France: A Cross-Confessional Comparison
Cornelia Möser, Eva Reimers
Pages 87-118
Right-Wing Sexual Politics and “Anti-gender” Mobilization in Italy: Key Features and Latest Developments
Luca Trappolin
Pages 119-143
Fear of the “New Human Being”: On the Intersection of Antisemitism, Antifeminism and Nationalism in the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ)
Karin Stögner, Translated by Chris Fenwick for Gegensatz Translation Collective
Pages 145-172
Paradoxes of the Right-Wing Sexual/Gender Politics in Hungary: Right-Wing Populism and the Ban of Gender Studies
Erzsébet Barát
Pages 173-199
Paradoxical Sexual and Gender Politics: Projects and Narratives of Russia’s Far Right
Erin Katherine Krafft
Pages 201-221
De-colonializing National(ist) Narratives Across the Island of Ireland: The Right to Same-Sex Marriage and Abortion in Northern Ireland
Ulrike M. Vieten
Pages 223-245
Paradoxes in Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe: Concluding Remarks
Eva Reimers, Olaf Stuve
Pages 247-265
Back Matter
Pages 267-278