Discipliniranje ženskih tijela i seksualnosti u desničarskim populističkim diskursima
Disciplining Female Bodies and Sexuality in Right-Winged Populist Discourses

Summary/Abstract: Whenever there is an economic crisis and political turbulence, pastors emerge on the scene who save a nation, people, ethnic group or state from others who are a threat to the dominant culture and this is most often broken through the female body. The main argument of this paper is that right-wing populist discourses use tooling strategies through which they homogenize their citizens in relation to Others and thus skilfully undermine gender equality and the freedom of women to dispose of their bodies, reproductive and other resources. Right-wing populists use secular rather than religious arguments in their rigid strategies by carefully coding the xenophobic and misogynistic messages they send to their voters. In this paper, I analyse the two rigged strategies of right-wing populists that attract the most attention in the media and public space: the discovery of the body of a Muslim woman with a hijab in Europe and abortion in the American context.

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