Cultural war 2.0? The relevance of gender in the radical populist-nationalist right

Right-wing parties across Europe seem to have a single issue - they mobilize against immigration. However, a gender perspective reveals that beneath the surface another project can be seen - the fundamental transformation of liberal democracies. The chapter rereads the Polanyian notions of “commodification†and “double movement†with a gender perspective. Right-wing movements against the disembedding of markets turn the frustration over neoliberal restructuring against immigrants, and against the emancipatory movements of the 1960s and 1970s such as the feminist movement, evocating a “crisis of masculinity†. Thus, the radical right claims to resolve the losses of the working class by reinterpreting class issues as issues of migrants and of gender equality policies. Thus, recent right-wing mobilization must be seen as (male) identity politics. Moreover, anti-gender mobilization is used to modulate new hegemonic constellations and to forge new alliances with conservatives, with the Catholic Church as well as with liberals.