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Pink-pilled

Women and the far right

By Lois Shearing

Pink-pilled
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  • Publish Date: Feb 2025
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    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 280
    • Price: £12.99
    • Published Date: February 2025

    Description

    A daring investigation into how women are recruited by the far right online.

    As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women.

    Women play significant roles in far-right movements, acting as propagandists, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled, journalist Lois Shearing interviews leading experts and infiltrates communities of tradwives and femtrolls to provide a cutting-edge account of how the far right uses the internet to recruit women. Shining a light on women's experiences within these movements, Shearing reveals horrifying examples of misogyny and violence.

    Understanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Pink-pilled offers key insights for countering women's radicalisation and building communities resistant to far-right thought.

    Reviews

    'Lois Shearing is unflinching about the role of women - and even of certain feminisms - in contemporary Anglo-American alt-right and neo-Nazi radicalisation. A gruesomely engaging study, Pink-pilled urges us to pay better heed to the white-supremacist work that fascism is doing today with cissexual femininity, in order to strengthen our ability as feminists to assert liberatory alternatives.'
    Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms

    Contents

    Introduction
    1 Girl-fascism defined: understanding the alt-right and far right
    2 Forward to the past: the history of women in far-right movements
    3 This is what they took from you: the far right's vision for women
    4 Feminism is cancer: how women are radicalised online
    5 What is a woman? Mapping women's radicalising content
    6 WHITE SHARIA NOW: women's experiences in far-right communities
    7 Which way western woman? Addressing the future of women in the far right
    Notes
    Index

    Author

    Lois Shearing is a freelance journalist and author. They are the author of Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life (2021) and the co-editor of It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks: An Anthology of Bisexual Voices (2024). Their writing on sex, sexuality, gender, relationship, digital culture and politics has appeared in Cosmopolitan, the Independent, Mashable, the Metro and Gay Times, among others.

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