{"id":33343,"date":"2021-08-31T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/abstract-von-dr-katharina-hajek\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T12:17:28","slug":"abstract-von-dr-katharina-hajek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/abstract-von-dr-katharina-hajek\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract by Dr. Katharina Hajek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although often overlooked in public discourse, gender, gender relations and sexuality play a central role in right-wing populist party politics and mobilizations. For Germany, this is particularly evident with regard to two events from recent years: on the one hand the demonstrations called \u2018Demo f\u00fcr Alle<\/em>\u2019 (Demonstration for all) organized in several major German cities from 2014 to 2016, which \u2013 inspired by the French Manif pour tous<\/em> \u2013 protested against sexual diversity education in schools and the seemingly \u2018state-forced destruction\u2019 of the traditional family; on the other hand, the extensive right-wing mobilizations following the sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year\u2019s Eve 2015, claiming to fight for the protection and right of self-determination of German women against alleged foreign perpetrators.<\/p>\n

A gender sensible look at these mobilizations highlights especially three dimensions:<\/p>\n

First, for right-wing populist actors, \u2018gender\u2019 and \u2018the family\u2019 are not just two topics among others. Rather, the evoked images of the \u2018threatened traditional family\u2019 and the \u2018threatened German woman\u2019 are used to construct a threat scenario in which nothing less than the cultural and biological reproduction of the German population and society is at stake. The associated fears are one of the most important pillars of right-wing mobilizations in Germany.<\/p>\n

Secondly, these policies should not be misunderstood simply as an attempt to \u2018re-traditionalize\u2019 gender relations. Rather, they indicate an actual and genuine re-articulation<\/em> of gendered subject positions and relations. Right-wing populist gender policies do not simply promote a \u2018home-and-hearth\u2019 policy. They articulate new female subject positions, such as the \u2018defensive mother\u2019: a specific mode of identification for white women based on an image of reproductive, yet always politically mobilized and supposedly emancipated femininity.<\/p>\n

Third, antifeminism and anti-gender politics in Germany must not be reduced to one party or party politics as such. Rather, we are dealing with a broader right-wing discourse coalition that reaches far into the broader conservative and liberal spectrum. The right-wing populist project is, thus, also already highly successful, insofar as it taps into already existent discourses around gender and the family that are popular in German society. Not least they managed to shift these discourses clearly to the right in the last years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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