CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Beauduin, Adrien |
|---|---|
| Title | Men and Women of the Far Right: the Gendered Dynamics of Enrolment, Ideology, and Mobilisation in the Polish Konfederacja and the Czech SPD |
| Summary | This dissertation interrogates the role of gender and sexuality in the far-right parliamentary parties Konfederacja (Confederation) in Poland and Svoboda a přímá demokracie (Freedom and Direct Democracy, SPD) in Czechia. Based on ethnographic methods, including face-to-face interviews with rank-and-file party members, I examine how these members joined the far right, what ideological projects the two parties propose and how the parties mobilise around their ideas. Drawing from the concepts of the gender and sexual order, and hegemonic masculinity, I examine the gendered and sexualised aspects of involvement, ideology and mobilisation in Konfederacja and SPD. This dissertation advances as its main argument that gender and sexuality are central to these far-right projects, but with some nuances. Thus, while these elements do not stand out strongly in members’ involvement paths, they are very much central to the parties’ ideological projects and to their mobilisation styles. Challenging mainstream political science’s view that gender and sexuality are peripheral to the far right, I contend instead that they are central in three ways: as pervasive to far-right ideology on race/ethnicity and class; as one of the main dimensions of inequality defended, naturalised and/or promoted by the far right; and as intrinsic to the far right’s mobilisation style. Based on the idea that the two far-right parties, despite their important differences, represent the most inegalitarian position on gender and sexuality within their respective contexts, I also propose a new conceptualisation of the far right identifying anti-egalitarianism as its ideological core. |
| Supervisor | Helms, Elissa |
| Department | Gender Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/beauduin_adrien.pdf |
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