ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 summarizes and discusses the main findings of the study. In far-right ideologies and movements, gender relations evolve but are also reproduced. First, populist radical right (PRR) ideologies in France and Italy entertain a complex relationship to gender/sexuality, having mobilized ‘modern’ (neoliberal) femininities/masculinities to support their agenda and attract members. Gender conservatism has shifted in correspondence with the evolving framing of religion. Second, the traditional gendered division of work celebrated by PRR parties may be reproduced but also questioned over the individual life courses of the activists. Gender-specific and classed relationships to paid work and to reproductive labour shape PRR mobilization. Third, PRR-gendered politics partakes of broader gendered and racialized transformations associated with neoliberal globalization. These parties have moved away from a traditional familistic ideology and the upholding of domestic gender regimes to embracing neoliberal public gender regimes, deploying a new discourse centred on the racialization of sexism and women's freedoms while emphasizing control over female bodies and sexualities. All this sheds light on PRR mobilizations as neither alien to mainstream values nor limited to the margins of society, but as a radical interpretation of widespread gendered discourses, values and practices.
