ABSTRACT
The following is an excerpted version of a chapter on gender and sexuality that originally appeared in Matthew Lyons’s 2018 Insurgent Supremacists: The US Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire (PM Press). Issues of gender and sexuality tend to get short shrift in discussions of the US far right. The far right is often defined as synonymous with the white nationalist movement, for whom race is the overriding issue, while the Christian right and other currents that emphasize gender and sexuality are treated as separate. The modern Christian right, which first emerged on a mass scale in the 1970s, put gender and sexual politics at the center of its program. Over the past three decades, Christian Reconstructionists have spearheaded a shift away from the quasi-feminism exemplified by CWA to a much harsher ideology of male dominance. For neonazis, racial ideology is the overarching framework that shapes their gender politics.
