ABSTRACT
The chapter analyzes the anti-modernist fascist political offers of women’s equality and women’s agency in the far right in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). It argues that women joined far-right parties and movements in order to resist the conservative patriarchy’s opposition to women’s participation in the public sphere, as well as to pursue acknowledgement for their unpaid care work at home. The violence of the far right was not a deterrent, but a significant factor in attracting women to the movement. The process of studying women in CEE far-right movements, whose history had been silenced because of gender and memory politics during communism and neoliberalism, gives insights into how far-right movements tried to marginalize women and how far-right women themselves contested that marginalization.
