Exploring the Complex and Contradictory Role(s) of Women within the UK Far Right

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Social movement studies have recently turned their attention to the far right anddocumented the variety of actors and their action repertoires such as party politics, streetmobilisation and online activism (Castelli Gattinara and Pirro, 2018). A key characteristic farright movements share is their nativism or nationalism, excluding certain 'others' from theirconcept of the nation-state (ibid.). There has been a worrying growth in far right support inrecent years, and even if in the UK this has only led to limited electoral gains, they have seensome considerable successes such as Brexit. This is a problem not only politically, asmainstream parties react by shifting further to the right, but for society, as far right ideologythreatens social stability (Jackman and Volport, 1996).The rise of the far right has therefore been a concern for politicians and social scientistsalike, leading to an increase in academic interest in nearly every aspect of the movement(Mudde, 2002; Ford, Goodwin and Cutts, 2011; Ford and Goodwin, 2014; Portelinha andElcheroth, 2016; Inglehart and Norris, 2017, 2019; Miller-Idriss, 2017; Doerr, 2017; Leidig,2020). Despite this proliferation of research, there is comparatively little work in this field ongender. Furthermore, those that do focus on this topic are guided by questions of the gendergap in far right support, as men are more likely to formally participate in the movement thanwomen (Givens, 2004; Rippeyoung, 2007; Harteveld et al, 2015; Spierings and Zaslove,2017). More recently, studies have also considered how the far right narrow this gender gapby instrumentalising gender discourses to 'legitimise' their anti-immigration and antitransgendermobilisation (Fekete, 2006; Akkerman and Hagelund, 2007; Erel, 2018; Duinaand Carson, 2019; Phipps, 2020).