Women in the new right. Tools for thinking about politics from a place of discomfort.

LIVE MEETINGS

Meeting 1. Do they campaign against their interests?

In recent years, the number of women who vote, are active in, and identify with the new right has grown. How can we explain this feminization of the contemporary right? Are they acting against their own interests? Do they lack information? How can we address these questions without underestimating these women's perspectives? The first class seeks to explore who they are, why they are there, and under what conditions—historical, political, and personal—their activism becomes possible.

Meeting 2. Are they all conservatives?

When discussing women on the right, the image that usually emerges is the same: conservative, religious, defenders of the traditional family. This gathering aims to complicate that portrayal. Through the trajectories of public figures who hold or have vied for positions of power on the right in the region, we observe that the differences between them are significant: generational, class-based, professional, and political. There are married and divorced women, women with and without children, lifelong activists and newcomers to politics. Their agendas also vary: economic freedom, security, national identity, individual rights. Looking at them more closely reveals a more heterogeneous—and more surprising—landscape than we usually imagine.

Meeting 3. Can one be a feminist and right-wing?

There are women who are active in the new right and also identify as feminists. Who are they? What do they understand by feminism? How do they articulate this identity with the issues discussed in their respective countries? What categories do they use to define themselves? Academia, for its part, has developed a series of concepts to study this phenomenon: "antifeminism," "neoliberal feminism," "postfeminism," "femo-nationalism," and "identity feminism." What does each one illuminate? What does it leave out? Using these tools, we discuss the potential and limitations for analyzing women's political participation in the new right.

Meeting 4. What remained of feminism after the tide? With the participation of Marta Lamas

To close the course, Marta Lamas, one of the most important voices in Latin American feminism, participates live in dialogue with the discussions held throughout the previous sessions. We analyze the massification of feminism and its implications: what transformations it has produced, what tensions it has generated, and how it coexists with the rise of the new right in the region.

PILLS. Recorded material

Pill 1. What made women's suffrage possible in Latin America? Three cases, multiple disputes

Women's suffrage in Latin America has a complex history, shaped by a question that framed much of the debate at the time: if women's suffrage is approved, which party will it benefit? In Argentina, decades of struggle by socialist, radical, and feminist activists preceded the law passed under the Peronist government in 1947. In Chile, it was the Conservative Party—supported by networks of Catholic women—that introduced the first bill in 1917, and suffrage was finally granted in 1949. In Paraguay, the last country in the region to recognize it, decades of feminist organizing and international pressure created the conditions for the Stroessner dictatorship to pass the law in 1961. This article explores these three cases to consider the relationship between women and politics from deeper and more unexpected perspectives.

Pill 2. France: feminist, nationalist and anti-immigrant militancy in the present

France is home to one of the most relevant cases for studying the intersection of feminism and the new right: the collective Némésis, founded in 2019, which articulates the defense of women's rights with an anti-immigration discourse grounded in the "defense of European identity." For Némésis, the threat to women comes not from patriarchy but from multiculturalism. This article analyzes how this intersection between feminism and national identity operates in France and proposes a discussion about the international component that is often used to describe the new right.

• Melina Vázquez (UBA, Argentina)
• Carolina Spataro (UBA, Argentina)
• Claudia Jareño (UAM, España)

The course is delivered online. It consists of four synchronous (live) sessions plus two pre-recorded modules available for free viewing. The live sessions are held on Thursdays from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (Argentina time) via Zoom. Participants have access to exclusive materials in the virtual classroom. The final assessment is an individual questionnaire.