(En)Gendering Hate Groups: Misogyny in the Extremist Right Wing

While often neglected in favour of a focus on race, ethnicity and religion, gender is also at the core of the historical and contemporary far right hate movement. Clearly, the white race cannot survive if “its women” are not controlled and constrained. I will explore how misogyny informs the ways in which the right thinks about and acts upon gender, sex, and sexuality.

This talk took place on Monday, March 8, 2021.

Speaker bio

Barbara Perry is a Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, and the Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism. She is currently working in the areas of anti-Muslim violence, antisemitic hate crime, the community impacts of hate crime, and right wing extremism in Canada. She is regularly called upon by policy makers, practitioners, and local, national and international media as an expert on hate crime and right-wing extremism.