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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.
Contents
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
