ABSTRACT
Women had been neglected as historical subjects because historians viewed history to be almost singularly about the exercise and transmission of power in the realms of politics and economics. There is a substantial scholarship on the right in the US, as well as a number of studies of women's roles and gender issues in rightist movements of many sorts. Yet, despite this accumulation of research, people are far from understanding how and to what extent gender matters in the US right. This chapter seeks to explain why it is difficult to understand this, and suggest an analytic agenda for scholars who seek to do so. A series of conceptual templates have circumscribed scholarship on gender and women in the US right. The chapter presents templates that earlier made it difficult for scholars to see women as significant rightist actors or gender issues as central in the US right. The 1920s Ku Klux Klan and modern organized racism.
