ABSTRACT
In the last decade sensitivity for the genderedness of right-wing populist parties, movements and discourses has been growing. The 'gender-lens' allows us to critically assess processes of right-wing populist parties' transformation and to analyse underlying continuities as well as the rationale of these modernisation' processes for current articulations of racism. The success of the latter seems very much connected with the shift from biological to cultural racism, de-ideologisation and rhetoric strategies appealing to common sense' and commonly shared values in order to address the public at large. The organisation that focuses its efforts on the defence of the traditional family' builds on already established discourses opposing an alleged gender theory'. Women are presented as victims of feminism as well as of the economic system, the media and left wing elites. The YFR programme on security frames young migrants as dangerous especially for native girls: Security is a fundamental right of Austrians.
