Eviane Leidig talks about her research into women of the far right who have become online influencers. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
When you think about the far right, you probably picture groups of young, white men carrying images of swastikas or torches like those seen at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
Eviane Leidig is a postdoctoral research fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, focusing on far-right ideology, gender and the internet. She spent countless hours following the accounts and posts of female far-right influencers to research her new book on the issue. The messaging is rather consistent with the history of conservative thinking, in terms of notions about traditional gender roles for women and for men.