Women and Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-12273-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 377 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

Women and Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) sheds new light on aspects of women’s support for the far right.

Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD) is the second largest party in Germany following the federal election in February 2025, and, like with its counterparts across Europe and elsewhere, women have been instrumental in securing the AfD’s ongoing electoral successes at both a state and federal level. Based on a period of overseas fieldwork during which the author interviewed female AfD members, this book explores how the development of their political subjectivity often intersects with key moments in Germany’s history and subsequent socio-political and economic transformations. The author casts a critical feminist eye over the ways in which women negotiate their own understandings of their AfD support which make it consonant with their own lives and experiences.

This book will be of interest to researchers of the far right, German politics, and gender studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Towards a feminist understanding of women in the AfD 2. Genderwahn! The family, performative allyship, and gender politics 3. The gendered frontlines of the ‘existential’ battle against Islam 4. Agency, extremism, and women’s tolerance of violence 5. Gender, affect, and the East German ‘experience’ Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Williams is an independent scholar. She completed her PhD at Cardiff University.