Gendering Fascism

Individual Actors, Concepts, and Transnational Connections

Andrea Germer, Jasmin Rückert (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

382 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69150-6 (ISBN)

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Gendering Fascism presents new theoretical and methodological approaches to the gendering technologies and strategies of various fascisms in Europe, Asia and America. Through empirical analyses and theoretical arguments, the volume aims to deepen our understanding of what has constituted fascism.

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 Pető, Jasmin Rückert, George Souvlis, Rosa Vasilaki, Caroline Waldron, and Dagmar Wernitznig.

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.

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 Pető

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Specials in Modern History ; 9
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	762 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	90-04-69150-2 / 9004691502
ISBN-13	978-90-04-69150-6 / 9789004691506
Zustand	Neuware