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A review by dessi_bocheva
The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization by Eviane Leidig
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
Happy to finally be able to add some of my academic reading to my good reads. I did genuinely enjoy this book and I'm so glad Leidig went through the effort of conducting and pulling together research in this area as its quite underresearched due to the overwhelming focus/dominance of men in the far right movement.
The only thing I think was missing/could have been elaborated on (and this was briefly discussed in the conclusion) was why women seem to be joining a movement which aims to limit their rights. I think there needs to be a greater discussion of how women fall complicit to patriarchy and the ways in which this provides legitimacy to the far right movement.
Nevertheless, this was a great read which paints an detailed and accurate picture of women's role in the far right movement and I can't wait to see the future research in this area.
The only thing I think was missing/could have been elaborated on (and this was briefly discussed in the conclusion) was why women seem to be joining a movement which aims to limit their rights. I think there needs to be a greater discussion of how women fall complicit to patriarchy and the ways in which this provides legitimacy to the far right movement.
Nevertheless, this was a great read which paints an detailed and accurate picture of women's role in the far right movement and I can't wait to see the future research in this area.