Explaining and Opposing Populism, Fascism and Multiple Crises across the Americas

• Margaret Power ^[1]
  1. [1] Illinois Institute of Technology

     Illinois Institute of Technology

     City of Chicago, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 17, Nº. 1, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Fall 2019), págs. 1-6
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Right-wing women see and project themselves as the moral guardians of their families and their nations. They frequently use a maternalist discourse to explain their activism and justify their actions by claiming their political engagement is an extension of their role as mothers, writ large. For many women, this is an appealing and comfortable identity that affirms their sense of who they are and who they are meant to be.