ABSTRACT

In this chapter, 1 we focus on how white separatist movement participants view gender, feminism, nature, and the various social changes that challenge their arguments about race and gender. Indeed the various branches of white separatists are responding to societal changes promoting racial and gender equality that have especially occurred since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Their desire for separatism grew out of their continuing frustrations with what they believe is growing discrimination against whites (e.g., reverse discrimination from affirmative action), increasing race-mixing that pollutes their racial heritage and identity, and growing threats to the family and to the masculinity of white men. This chapter provides a detailed, nuanced examination of white separatist views of gender, arguing that their views are complex and varied.