The Scandal of Women’s Emancipation. Femonationalism, Right-Wing Sexual Politics, and Anti-Feminism

Abstract In the past decade, several publications in gender studies have been grappling with conservative and reactionary politics claiming to defend women sexual minorities against immigrants. Sara Farris’s concept of femonationalism offers explanations for paradox far-right actors pretending care about some feminists making racist statements. Yet methodology as well her arguments show important shortcomings. a close reading book, this article refutes hypothesis conversion far-right, EU, neoliberal, feminist lays out alternative perspectives order develop better understanding ongoing phenomenon. The deconstructs false opposition heterosexual familialist migrant Muslim communities versus queer-friendly Europeans. presenting recent studies, suggests it is necessary understand paradoxical their familialist, capitalist, colonialist contexts.