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Gendering Fascism
Individual Actors, Concepts, and Transnational Connections
Series: - Brill's Specials in Modern History, Volume: 9
What role did gender play in fascist visions and politics? The contributions in this volume map the category of gender in modern forms of political organisation and mobilisation of women and men; in propaganda and in the disciplining of bodies. In this theoretical framework, gender and fascism are seen as deeply intertwined. âGendering fascismâ denotes a paradigmatic lens through which to explore the configurations, strategies, and technologies of fascist imaginaries and politics. Presenting empirical case studies of Europe, Asia and America as gendered sites of historical and transnational fascist engagement, the volume challenges lingering Eurocentric perspectives in fascism studies.
Contributors are: Ryan Anningson, Anca Axinia, Andrea Germer, Brian J Griffith, Vera Marstaller, Meguro Akane, Toni Morant, Inbal Ofer, Hanna-Leena Paloposki, Andrea PetÅ, Jasmin Rückert, George Souvlis, Rosa Vasilaki, Caroline Waldron, and Dagmar Wernitznig.
Contributors are: Ryan Anningson, Anca Axinia, Andrea Germer, Brian J Griffith, Vera Marstaller, Meguro Akane, Toni Morant, Inbal Ofer, Hanna-Leena Paloposki, Andrea PetÅ, Jasmin Rückert, George Souvlis, Rosa Vasilaki, Caroline Waldron, and Dagmar Wernitznig.
Andrea Germer, Ph.D. (2001), Bochum University, is Professor of Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She has published on propaganda, feminism, gender and nation in Japan, including her recent coedited volume The Handbook of Feminisms in Japan (AUP, 2024).
Jasmin Rückert is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She completed two masterâs degrees in Gender Studies and Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna in 2017 and 2018. Her Ph.D. project investigates propagandistic and vernacular uses of Japanese photography in Manchuria between 1931 and 1945.
Jasmin Rückert is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She completed two masterâs degrees in Gender Studies and Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna in 2017 and 2018. Her Ph.D. project investigates propagandistic and vernacular uses of Japanese photography in Manchuria between 1931 and 1945.
List of Figures and Table
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Introduction: Technologies of Gender in the Workings of Fascisms
Andrea Germer
1 Contradictory or Organic Aspects of Fascism? The Role of Women in the Propaganda of the Metaxas Regime (1936â1941)
âRosa Vasilaki and George Souvlis
2 Rethinking the Relationship between Women, Gender, and Spanish Fascism: âVerticalityâ as a Mediating Concept
âInbal Ofer
3 Of Swastika Sisters and Chocolate Girls: Gender and Fascism in Southern Austria during the Short 20th Century
âDagmar Wernitznig
4 Mediated Männerbund: A Story of Collaboration and Compliance in Hungary during World War II
âAndrea PetÅ
5 Family Concepts: Gender, Politics, and Personal Relationships in the Romanian Legionary Movement
âDiana Axinia
6 Gender, Violence, and Nazi Ideology in German War Photography (1939â1945)
âVera Marstaller
7 A Visual Grammar of Fascism: Gender, Race, and Biopower in Japanese Overseas Propaganda
âAndrea Germer
8 âThe Mother of Criminalsâ: Gender, Fascism, and Sterilisation in the United States, 1877â1945
âRyan Anningson
9 âWomenâs Eugenicsâ and Takeuchi Shigeyo: Disease Prevention Strategies in 1930s Japan
âMeguro Akane
10 Hormones, Gender, and Fascism: Development and Marketing of Hormone Products in Wartime Japan
âJasmin Rückert
11 âComrades beyond Bordersâ: The Women of the Spanish Falange, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany
âToni Morant
12 Fascism, Gender, and Displays of Art: The Exhibition of Italian Women Artists in Finland and Estonia in 1937
âHanna-Leena Paloposki
13 âPropaganda for Our Italyâ: Ruth Williams Ricci, Gendered Mobility, and Fascist Italyâs African Empire, 1935â1941
âBrian J Griffith
14 No Labels: How Lisa Sergio Translated Fascism, Feminism, and Herself on Radio
âCaroline Waldron
Index
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Introduction: Technologies of Gender in the Workings of Fascisms
Andrea Germer
PART 1: Organisations and Individual Actors
1 Contradictory or Organic Aspects of Fascism? The Role of Women in the Propaganda of the Metaxas Regime (1936â1941)
âRosa Vasilaki and George Souvlis
2 Rethinking the Relationship between Women, Gender, and Spanish Fascism: âVerticalityâ as a Mediating Concept
âInbal Ofer
3 Of Swastika Sisters and Chocolate Girls: Gender and Fascism in Southern Austria during the Short 20th Century
âDagmar Wernitznig
4 Mediated Männerbund: A Story of Collaboration and Compliance in Hungary during World War II
âAndrea PetÅ
PART 2: Imaginaries, Representations, and the Press
5 Family Concepts: Gender, Politics, and Personal Relationships in the Romanian Legionary Movement
âDiana Axinia
6 Gender, Violence, and Nazi Ideology in German War Photography (1939â1945)
âVera Marstaller
7 A Visual Grammar of Fascism: Gender, Race, and Biopower in Japanese Overseas Propaganda
âAndrea Germer
PART 3: Bodies and Biopolitics
8 âThe Mother of Criminalsâ: Gender, Fascism, and Sterilisation in the United States, 1877â1945
âRyan Anningson
9 âWomenâs Eugenicsâ and Takeuchi Shigeyo: Disease Prevention Strategies in 1930s Japan
âMeguro Akane
10 Hormones, Gender, and Fascism: Development and Marketing of Hormone Products in Wartime Japan
âJasmin Rückert
PART 4: Transnational Connections and Conversions
11 âComrades beyond Bordersâ: The Women of the Spanish Falange, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany
âToni Morant
12 Fascism, Gender, and Displays of Art: The Exhibition of Italian Women Artists in Finland and Estonia in 1937
âHanna-Leena Paloposki
13 âPropaganda for Our Italyâ: Ruth Williams Ricci, Gendered Mobility, and Fascist Italyâs African Empire, 1935â1941
âBrian J Griffith
14 No Labels: How Lisa Sergio Translated Fascism, Feminism, and Herself on Radio
âCaroline Waldron
Index
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