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The study of women, gender and the extreme right lies at the confluence of two major areas of scholarly interest, and this conference is intended as a contribution to both. It will re-evaluate the history of women and gender in the light of contemporary approaches to the extreme right, and re-evaluate the history of the extreme right in the light of recent approaches to women and gender. It will examine
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Die Brennessel (30 January 1934) "Caption: "Yesterday the NSBO, today the S.A., tomorrow the P.O. When will he have time For me?" Picture courtesy of Professor Randall Bytwerk. A visit to his German Propaganda Archive is recommended. |
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Bojan Aleksov, Central European University, 'Forgotten engagement: women in the pietist movement in interwar Yugoslavia' Lena Berggren, Umeå University, Sweden, 'Upper-class women and politics: The Swedish National Federation and its female members 1930-1945'. Jana Bruns,Stanford University, 'Thoughts on Kristina Söderbaum and Wartime Melodrama'. R.M. Douglas, Colgate University, 'Handmaids of the Resurrection: Ailtirí na hAiséirgh,. women and the fascist "New Order" in Ireland' Victoria Enders, Northern Arizona University, 'Memories of Choice: motivations of women in the Spanish Falange'. Melissa Feinberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 'Equal Rights in Separate Spheres? Women and the Right in the Czech Lands After Munich'. Andrea Feldman, 'Women and the ideology of Yugoslavism' (1918-1939) Jo Fox, University of Durham: 'Blut und Boden: Kristina Söderbaum and the promotion of rural anti-Slavic propaganda in Die goldene Stadt (1942)'. Maarten Van Ginderachter, Ghent University, 'Women on the Extreme Right in Flanders between 1918 and 1940'. Julie Gottlieb, University of Manchester 'Britain's new fascist men: cultural constructions of gender and sexuality in the British Union of Fascists'. Maura E Hametz, Old Dominion University,'All in the name of a dead man: a widow's appeal' Constantin Iordachi, Central European University, 'Charisma of the Archangel: Women's participation in the Iron Guard in Interwar Romania' Judith Keene, University of Sydney, '"Armed with Flit and Phonograph"': Franco's foreign female supporters. Evelyn M. Kain, Ripon College, 'Stephanie Hollebnstein: Painter, patriot, paradox'. Michelle Mouton, University of Wisconsin Oskosh, 'Maternity, Political Activism and Generational Conflicty in National Socialist Germany'. Irena Novikova, Centre for Gender Studies, University of Latvia, 'Minority women and gender policies in Latvia during the 1930s'. Inbal Ofer, Tel Aviv University, 'A tool of Legitimation: The Imagery of life and death of Fascist Women during the Spanish Civil War as Employed in the Seccion Femeninina's Discourse'. Dagmar Reese, University of Washington, 'Paradoxes of Freedom'. Marleen Rensen, University of Amsterdam, 'The image of women in Dreiu la Rochelle's Gilles' Joanne Sayner, Cardiff University, 'An autobiography of avoidance. The construction of memories about fascism in Melita Maschmann's autobiography Taking Stock. My Journey within the Hitler Youth'. Mareitta Stankova, London School of Economics, 'Women and the extreme right in Bulgaria in the interwar period'. Marla Stone, Occidental College, 'Images of women in Italian Fascist official culture: Mothers and Goddesses'. Susan Tegel, University of Hertfordshire 'Gender and race in Nazi propaganda films: Veit Harlan's Jud Süss (1940)' Eleftheria-Rosa Vasilaki, EHESS, Paris, 'Young Women in the National Youth Organisation under the Metaxas regime'. Rory Yoemans, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, '"We Are Ustasha, We Are Men!": Sexual Personæ in the Ustasha Movement'. |
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