Image: From “The Role of Women in Far Right Extremism.”

This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism.

See also: Women & White Supremacy in U.S. History.

Books

Kathleen M. Blee: Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement.

Jessie Daniels:

• Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It.
• White Lies: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse.

Seyward Darby: Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism.

Eviane Leidig: The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization.

Articles

Jessie Daniels:

• Rebekah Mercer Is Leading an Army of Alt-Right Women.
• Laura Ingraham Is Mainstreaming White Supremacy, But She’s Not Alone.
• Why The Face Of Family Separation Is A White Woman.
• The Word Of A White Woman Can Still Get Black People Killed.
• Why It Matters That A White Woman Called The Police To Starbucks.

Seyward Darby:

• The Secret Weapons of the Far Right: While the men of the extreme-right are usually the ones who make headlines, it’s the women who often do the work of reinforcing supremacist movements.
• White Supremacy Was Her World. And Then She Left. To stop hate, we have to understand it.
• ‘You’re Not a Racist and Neither Am I’: The Former Feminist Who Turned to White Supremacy.

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae: White women overwhelmingly supported Roy Moore. We shouldn’t be surprised. For centuries, white women have supported conservative and white supremacist candidates.

Linda Gordon: Why women have always been essential to white supremacist movements.

Nicole Hemmer: The women fighting for white male supremacy.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss: How right-wing extremists weaponize the idea of motherhood: Women play a more significant role in far-right extremist movements than is often acknowledged.

Farah Pandith & Jacob Ware: Women and Children to the Front.

Hanna Rigault Arkhis & Jessica White: Female veterans and right-wing extremism: becoming ‘one of the boys’.

Susan Shaw: The Women of the Insurrection.

Jack Smith IV: The women of the “alt-right” are speaking out against misogyny. They’d prefer absolute patriarchy.

Kelly Weill: Ladies of the Right: A Q&A with Madeline Peltz.