Gendering Fascism

Individual Actors, Concepts, and Transnational Connections
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-69150-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Brill's Specials in Modern History

What role did gender play in fascist visions and politics? The contributions in this volume map the category of gender in modern forms of political organisation and mobilisation of women and men; in propaganda and in the disciplining of bodies. In this theoretical framework, gender and fascism are seen as deeply intertwined. ‘Gendering fascism’ denotes a paradigmatic lens through which to explore the configurations, strategies, and technologies of fascist imaginaries and politics. Presenting empirical case studies of Europe, Asia and America as gendered sites of historical and transnational fascist engagement, the volume challenges lingering Eurocentric perspectives in fascism studies.

Contributors are: Ryan Anningson, Anca Axinia, Andrea Germer, Brian J Griffith, Vera Marstaller, Meguro Akane, Toni Morant, Inbal Ofer, Hanna-Leena Paloposki, Andrea Peto, Jasmin Rückert, George Souvlis, Rosa Vasilaki, Caroline Waldron, and Dagmar Wernitznig.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Germer, Andrea

Rückert, Jasmin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Table

Acknowledgements

Note on Contributors

Introduction: Technologies of Gender in the Workings of Fascisms

Andrea Germer

PART 1: Organisations and Individual Actors

1 Contradictory or Organic Aspects of Fascism? The Role of Women in the Propaganda of the Metaxas Regime (1936–1941) Rosa Vasilaki and George Souvlis

2 Rethinking the Relationship between Women, Gender, and Spanish Fascism: ‘Verticality’ as a Mediating Concept Inbal Ofer

3 Of Swastika Sisters and Chocolate Girls: Gender and Fascism in Southern Austria during the Short 20th Century Dagmar Wernitznig

4 Mediated Männerbund: A Story of Collaboration and Compliance in Hungary during World War II Andrea Peto

PART 2: Imaginaries, Representations, and the Press

5 Family Concepts: Gender, Politics, and Personal Relationships in the Romanian Legionary Movement Diana Axinia

6 Gender, Violence, and Nazi Ideology in German War Photography (1939–1945) Vera Marstaller

7 A Visual Grammar of Fascism: Gender, Race, and Biopower in Japanese Overseas Propaganda Andrea Germer

PART 3: Bodies and Biopolitics

8 ‘The Mother of Criminals’: Gender, Fascism, and Sterilisation in the United States, 1877–1945 Ryan Anningson

9 ‘Women’s Eugenics’ and Takeuchi Shigeyo: Disease Prevention Strategies in 1930s Japan Meguro Akane

10 Hormones, Gender, and Fascism: Development and Marketing of Hormone Products in Wartime Japan Jasmin Rückert

PART 4: Transnational Connections and Conversions

11 ‘Comrades beyond Borders’: The Women of the Spanish Falange, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany Toni Morant

12 Fascism, Gender, and Displays of Art: The Exhibition

of Italian Women Artists in Finland and Estonia in 1937 Hanna-Leena Paloposki

13 ‘Propaganda for Our Italy’: Ruth Williams Ricci, Gendered Mobility, and Fascist Italy’s African Empire, 1935–1941 Brian J Griffith

14 No Labels: How Lisa Sergio Translated Fascism, Feminism, and Herself on Radio Caroline Waldron

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Germer, Ph.D. (2001), Bochum University, is Professor of Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She has published on propaganda, feminism, gender and nation in Japan, including her recent coedited volume The Handbook of Feminisms in Japan (AUP, 2024).

Jasmin Rückert is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She completed two master’s degrees in Gender Studies and Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna in 2017 and 2018. Her Ph.D. project investigates propagandistic and vernacular uses of Japanese photography in Manchuria between 1931 and 1945.