The ambivalence of right-wing populist feminism: Political strategy or ideological reconfiguration of the gender question?

Labelled as macho organisations, exalting virility and reducing women to their role as mothers, right-wing populist parties (RWPP) present themselves as promoters of women's rights against Islam and immigration. Feminism is oriented towards a racist and nativist ideology ('femonationalism'). Our paper questions RWPP with regard to the gender question conveyed in their discourses: discursive argument or ideological issue, biological or cultural interpretation, social, psychological, political, philosophical or legal framework. Secondly, we will interview representatives of these parties to listen to their representation of gender and feminism and to study their actions within the parties. In the literature, the focus is mainly on men. Women are assumed to be outside or manipulated. However, more and more women are now members of these parties. The aim is to question the place and functions of these women and the discourses they produce. Thirdly, the decisive objective is to analyse the discourses of the RWPP, of the women representatives and to confront them. Biological and cultural discourses, discourses opposed to feminism and feminist discourses opposed to Islam... Interrogating these discourses raises ideological and rhetorical tensions that have been little studied.