Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World
Right-Wing Womenis an invaluable, unprecedented collection of comparative, interdisciplinary essays. It illuminates both the scope of right-wing projects, and the centrality of women, gender, and sexuality to them.–Amrita Basu, editor ofThe Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global PerspectiveIn these essays, upstarts and activists break out of conventional stereotypes about right wing women, and force us to re-think our assumptions about political activism and women's roles. Writing from almost as many disciplinary perspectives as national contexts, the authors have produced a pioneering work about global gender politics.–Claudia Koonz, author ofMothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi PoliticsThe essays inRight-Wing Womenraise profound questions about the relationships between women, nationalism, and feminism. The book not only explores and expands this under-researched field of feminist and political scholarship, but it attempts to do this in a truly global way.–Nira Yuval-Davis, author ofGender and NationIf ever a collection showed the necessity of focusing on women's agency, it isRight-Wing Women.  This book is also a good read, one that will appeal to specialists and ordinary readers alike.–Temma Kaplan, author ofCrazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements