How the Populist Radical Right Has Embraced the Neoliberal Gender Regime: the Case of the Rassemblement National
As part of the Invited Lectures series of the Contemporary History, Politics and Economics degree, on 9 April Francesca Scrinzi will give a lecture on the use of gender by the radical populist right in France.
26/03/2025
Reflecting changing models of femininity/masculinity and expectations around gender, the populist radical right elaborates more pragmatic positions on the family and mobilizes issues of gender equality to target the racialized Others, depicting migrant men as misogynist and violent. Based on a two-year qualitative (biographical interviews with party members and representatives, observations, and Critical Frame Analysis applied to party documents) study, Francesca Scrinzi (University of Glasgow) will analyses the gender ideology of the Rassemblement national (RN, France), showing how it has evolved over time. In the lecture, the key-note speaker will delineates how, in using notions of gender to mainstream its agenda, the RN has moved away from a more traditional familistic ideology and from supporting a ‘domestic gender regime’ to embracing the neoliberal ‘public gender regime’, and deploying a new ‘neoliberal feminist’ discourse centred on women’s freedoms.
The lecture is part of the Invited Lectures series of the Contemporary History, Politics and Economics bachelor degree. The session, presented by Javier Rodrigo and moderated by Steven Forti –coordinator and deputy coordinator of the degree, respectively–, will be held in the Sala de Graus of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the UAB on 9 April at 10:30h.