Manchester University Press
Girl-fascism defined
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Lois Shearing
Abstract
This chapter takes the reader on the same journey that the author went on, in stumbling down an alt-right pipeline after watching a viral YouTube video from vloggers Girl Defined. It then explores the concept of digital radicalisation pipelines and how the alt-right used them to recruit young men at the height of the movement’s relevance. The chapter moves on to ask why and how women fall into alt-right pipelines and examines how significant a presence women have in the alt-right and far right. To do so, the chapter provides an explanation of what the alt-right and far right are, including how they differ and the factions within them. The chapter concludes by touching on some of the key roles women play within these communities and the historic precedence of their involvement.
Abstract
This chapter takes the reader on the same journey that the author went on, in stumbling down an alt-right pipeline after watching a viral YouTube video from vloggers Girl Defined. It then explores the concept of digital radicalisation pipelines and how the alt-right used them to recruit young men at the height of the movement’s relevance. The chapter moves on to ask why and how women fall into alt-right pipelines and examines how significant a presence women have in the alt-right and far right. To do so, the chapter provides an explanation of what the alt-right and far right are, including how they differ and the factions within them. The chapter concludes by touching on some of the key roles women play within these communities and the historic precedence of their involvement.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Dedication v
- Epigraph vi
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Girl-fascism defined 17
- 1 Forward to the past 37
- 2 This is what they took from you 52
- 3 Feminism is cancer 93
- 4 What is a woman? Mapping women’s radicalising content 145
- 5 WHITE SHARIA NOW 189
- 6 Which way Western woman? Addressing the future of women in the far right 208
- Acknowledgements 229
- Further reading 232
- Notes 234
- Index 260
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Dedication v
- Epigraph vi
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Girl-fascism defined 17
- 1 Forward to the past 37
- 2 This is what they took from you 52
- 3 Feminism is cancer 93
- 4 What is a woman? Mapping women’s radicalising content 145
- 5 WHITE SHARIA NOW 189
- 6 Which way Western woman? Addressing the future of women in the far right 208
- Acknowledgements 229
- Further reading 232
- Notes 234
- Index 260
