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Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: Between internalised misogyny and ‘embedded feminism’
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3). Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Rethinking Democracy (REDEM).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4953-2852
2022 (English)In: Feminist Media Studies, ISSN 1468-0777, E-ISSN 1471-5902, Vol. 22, no 7, p. 1763-1780Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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This paper is based on a case study of the online media practices of the neo-Nazi organisation, the Nordic Resistance Movement, conducted in the context of an ongoing project on contemporary forms of violent extremism in Sweden. Focusing on the activities of female “online influencers”, the paper explores the contradictory discourses around the role of women as “race warriors” and “Nordic wives” as this is articulated both by the women in the organisation themselves and in the online universe of the organisation more generally. On the one hand, women’s positions are determined and heavily policed by men in an organisation that openly propagates women’s subordination to men and their natural and biological role in the realm of homemaking. On the other, the discourses produced by these women are saturated by ideas of female empowerment, sisterhood, emancipation and the importance of women in the reproduction of the white race. The content analysis of online propaganda produced by female activists about the role of women positions these contradictory pulls of “White femininity” inherent to the white supremacist movements at the current political juncture in which the extreme right is growing and actively looking to recruit women as part of a broader strategy to “mainstream” in Sweden and mobilise internationally.

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Taylor & Francis, 2022. Vol. 22, no 7, p. 1763-1780
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-41696DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1916772ISI: 000646840900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85105450222OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-41696DiVA, id: diva2:1548183
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Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, 1-MS-002 MSBMarianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, MMW.2016.0018Available from: 2021-04-29 Created: 2021-04-29 Last updated: 2024-02-05Bibliographically approved

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