Women gender and fascism in Europe 1919-45

What attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights? This question has vexed feminist scholars for decades and has led to many lively debates in the academy. In this context during the 1980s the study of women gender and fascism in twentieth-century Europe took off pioneered by historians such as Claudia Koonz and Victoria de Grazia. This volume makes an exciting contribution to the evolving body of work based upon these earlier studies bringing emerging scholarship on Central and Eastern Europe alongside that of more established Western European historiography on the topic. Women Gender and Fascism in Europe 1919-45 features fourteen essays covering Serbia Croatia Yugoslavia Romania Hungary Latvia and Poland in addition to Germany Italy France Spain and Britain and a conclusion that pulls together a European-wide perspective. As a whole the volume provides a compelling comparative examination of this important topic through current research literature reviews and dialogue with existing debates. The essays cast new light on questions such as women''s responsibility for the collapse of democracy in interwar Europe the interaction between the women''s movement and the extreme right and the relationships between conceptions of national identity and gender. It will be read by undergraduate students of history politics sociology and women''s studies as well as by their teachers and researchers in the field of the extreme right and women''s and gender history.