International Networks and Cross-Border Cooperation: National Socialist Women and the Vision of a ‘New Order’ in Europe
Research on women, gender and fascism has hitherto tended to focus on a single movement or national context. A growing body of recent research has examined the transnational dimensions of interwar and wartime fascist movements, but has not particularly considered the gendered messages and gendered a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2012, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-158 |
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| Summary: | Research on women, gender and fascism has hitherto tended to focus on a single movement or national context. A growing body of recent research has examined the transnational dimensions of interwar and wartime fascist movements, but has not particularly considered the gendered messages and gendered agency involved in such cross-border initiatives. This article sets out to explore female fascist networking by examining the international connections and cross-border activism of National Socialist women's organizations. It analyses the reasons for Nazi women's organizations to pursue contacts abroad while disassociating themselves from the internationalist traditions of liberal feminism. It traces the ‘foreign and border’ work of the Nazi women's organization (NS-Frauenschaft) and its efforts before the Second World War to create a ‘nationalist international’. It then moves on to focus on the Second World War: using the case of the ‘International Women's Meeting’ held in Berlin in October 1941, it explores the paradoxes involved in the idea of mobilizing nationalist women in countries occupied by or aligned with Nazi Germany for a ‘new Europe’ under National Socialist leadership. |
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| ISSN: | 2156-7697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics, religion & ideology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2012.675710 |