ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Martin Durham's purpose to investigate the extent to which Nick Griffin's British national party (BNP) had, in regard to women. It genuinely moved beyond the values and ideas of the 1970s national front (NF) and 1980s/90s BNP values and ideas which were rooted in race and nation. Following Griffin's capture of the BNP in 1999, John Tyndall and Spearhead frequently denounced the new leadership, and as people see, this included the allegation that Griffin's BNP was capitulating to rampant feminism. Denouncing pornography and sexual violence, another author declared that while the BNP supported stronger punishments for child molesters, rapists and murderers, it also recognised the need to pay attention to the other causes of the upsurge in sexual violence and abuse. If one new development in the BNP's view of women has been the mobilisation of gender in its war on Islam, a second has been its projection of the party as more family-friendly.
