Right-Wing Women comes out of our desire to engage with other scholars who work on this understudied subject, across national and regional contexts, and across disciplines. We hope this book contributes to increased understandings of and debates on the scope and importance of right-wing women and furthers anti-right-wing practice.
It is something of an understatement to remart that historically and currently studies of the right overwhelmingly focus on men. However, over the past twenty years feminist scholars have produced some provocative nation-specific or region-specific articles, books, and edition volumes on right-wing women located variously in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and South Asia (the bulk of this work is referenced within related individual chapters herein). Right-Wing Women builds upon this prior work and energetically extends it, to constitute the first globally comparative, interdisciplinary volume on right-wing women ever. The contributors write on right-wing women in Africa, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. Notwithstanding our efforts, the volume remains uneven in terms of the countries represented. That is, we contacted authors whom we knew and didn't know, and solicited articles through announcements in feminist journals and on the Internet. We also sought to balance the volume by searching for contributors through area studies channels, and writing to universities around the globe. We received many submissions on North American and western European right wings, very few on rigth-wing women in postcolonial societies across the globe, and none on areas such as Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and sub-Saharan Africa with the exception of South Africa.
Part 1 Agency/Subjectivity/Subject Positions
Part 2 Right Activisms and Racialized/Classed/Religioned Others
Part 3 Interrogations: Right-Thinking,Feminisms, and the Left
Part 4 Righted Bodies: Discipline, Excess, Pleasure