ABSTRACT
While much has been written on the British Union of Fascists, very little attention has been given to the role of women both in the movement and in its ideology. Yet the BUF put a great deal of effort into recruiting women and developed policies that were disconcertingly different from our usual picture of Fascism. In the Corporate State of the future y its propagandists claimed, women would not be confined to the home but would achieve full equality. Closer examination suggests a more ambiguous attitude, especially towards married women, and the movement remained very much male-led. But women played an important part in BUF activity including, surprisingly, campaigning against war, and the article concludes by exploring the different factors that drew women to the movement.
