![]() Political agent in the building of diverse national projects. Like her maleĬounterpart, the “new woman” had to be continually mobilized in order to become a militant citizen and an active It was no longer enough for woman to be an exemplary mother and spouse. Plurality of visions of womanhood within Europe and beyond-including among fascist movements and regimes-to buildĪ “new woman” who, in theory at least, would reach beyond the private sphere traditionally reserved for her within “new woman” or the “new person.” While not the object of this collection, there were indeed some attemptsĪt diverse radical right movements and regimes to enable the creation of a “new woman.” Of course, there was a Put another way, this is a volume on fascism’s chauvinisticĬonstruction of a “new man,” rather than containing contributions on the Simply imply “person,” as was common interwar usage. ![]() Yet the New Man is not a gendered hybrid in this volume, nor does “man” Regimes, several of which are discussed in this monograph, including key examples from LatinĪmerica, melded fascist tendencies with nonfascist ones-a concept explored more fully in Antonio Costa Pinto and Aristotle Kallis’s important edited collection from 2014, Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe. Of fascist regimes but lacked fascism’s revolutionary aims. Refers to such regimes as “para-fascist” in the sense that they adopted many of the symbols, features, and components In Europe and abroad as well as regimes that contained several important components of fascism (such as charismatic leadership)īut that, as in the decades-long dictatorships in the Iberian peninsula, ultimately lacked a revolutionary drive. Inspiration.” These include anticommunist right-wing movements suffusing the interwar period The former were groups who, “although undoubtedlyĪnti-liberal and anti-communist, sought to fulfil goals which were insufficiently palingenetic or ultranationalist in their Right” and more fellow traveling in his seminal The Nature Griffin further distinguishes between the “ nonfascist radical Keeping the previous constitutional order more or less intact. Seek to overthrow the existing order and install a new totalitarianismĬommunity of the “elect,” whereas the more reactionary radical right err toward advocating a status quo ante while On the crucial issue of constitutionalism. Yet it is stressed here that the two differ To extreme forms of nationalism and, especially before 1945, overt paramilitarism. Ranging from shared enemies (above all, Jews, left-wingers, and other social “undesirables” like gays or Freemasons) The two are examined together as they both occupy common ideological terrain, Right” is intended as an umbrella term, encompassing both fascist and nonfascist authoritarian regimes. Spirit that the country-focused chapters in this volume address the complex history of the New Man in radical right thinking So much as fellow travelers or copycats-alongside the open-endedness and the destructive dynamic that ensued. ![]() Germany to a myriad of radical right and authoritarian departures-which were not necessarily fascist revolutionaries Which underscores the contribution of Fascist Italy and, later, Nazi Processes in the process of “ fascistization” before 1945, ![]() Kallis has urged a reconsideration of the fluidity, hybridization, and cross-fertilization of highly volatile ideological–political Roberts invited a loosening of these teleological mental structures so as to better probe the universe of radical right politicsĪnd the place of fascist ideology within it. Largely replicated, albeit in extreme forms, the normative ideals of masculinity of modern Western civilization. Glorification of the Great War and the cult of youth and action, nevertheless conclude that fascism Mosse, while acknowledging the importance of the subject and emphasizing some of its most visible aspects, such as the Spackman, have identified virility as an essential feature of fascist ideology. Of patriarchal society from the end of the nineteenth century. Has become commonplace to view attempts to create “New Men” as a spasm of virility, in order to compensate forįin de siècle male anxieties-provoked by the processes of modernization that challenged traditional structures Studies, which, although genuinely valuable, cannot account for the complexity of the New Man in radical right thinking. In doing so, it eschews the temptation of dealing with the topic solely from the lens of masculinity Well as a plethora of academic chapters and articles, the present collection approaches this vital area from a plurality of Building upon several valuable non-English volumes as This is the first in-depth, comparative Anglophone volume dedicated to radical rightĬonceptions of a New Man between 19 in Europe and beyond.
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