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After attending the course students know foundational concepts, terms and theoretical approaches to critical research on right-wing extremism and antifeminism from a gender perspective.
Building on this they are able to interrogate and analyse current political statements and formulate their own position as well a a well-founded rationale.

In recent years, gender, gender relations and sexuality have been the object of fierce political and social debate. For right-wing and authoritarian forces in particular, gender and everything associated with this term represents a political bogeyman. Building on a specific (mis-)representation of gender anti-democratic narratives are spread. Partly those narratives also find resonance in political mainstream.
In this seminar we will work to build an understanding of right-wing extremism, the importance of gender and sexuality for the (extreme) right, and of anti-feminism based on research and academic debates. We will first and foremost work on concrete examlples - e.g. narratives on social media, in the manosphere or among tradwives, current conspiracy narrative like the 'Great Replacement'.

Inputs, group discussions, independent research, feedback, project work

attendance, participation, preperation, project work

The full list of readings will be communicated at the beginning of the course.

Copland, Simon (2023): Weak Men and the Feminisation of Society: Locating the Ideological Glue between the Manosphere and the Far-Right. In J. Goetz & S. Mayer (eds.), Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism: Far-Right and Religious Attacks on Equality and Diversity (pp. 116–136). Edinburgh University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.7358671.10

Goetz, Judith (2020). ‚Der große Austausch‘– Rechtsextreme Reproduktions- und Bevölkerungspolitik am Beispiel der ,Identitären‘. FEMINA POLITICA - Zeitschrift Für Feministische Politikwissenschaft, 29(2–2020), 37–49. https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v29i2.04

Hoffman, Bruce/Ware, Jacob/Shapiro, Ezra (2020): Assessing the Threat of Incel Violence. Studies in Conflict & Terrorismus, Vol. 43/7, 565-587.

Mayer, S./Goetz, J. (2019): Mit Gott und Natur gegen geschlechterpolitischen Wandel. Ideologie und Rheotirken des rechten Antifeminismus. In: FIPU (ed.): Rechtsextremismus. Band 3: Geschlechterreflektierte Perspektiven. Mandelbaum. 205-247

Schiedel, Heribert (2008): Der rechte Rand. Extremistische Gesinnungen in unserer Gesellschaft. Wien.

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If there are any questions please contact gender-studies@uibk.ac.at