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DESCRIPTION:Women, Gender and the Right in the United States\n\nSpeakers: \n--Katie 
 Gaddini, Associate Professor of Sociology, University College London  
 \n--Sophie Bjork-James, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt 
 University\n\nGender and sexuality are flashpoints in today’s culture 
 wars in the US and serve to bind together the right wing (with somewhat 
 varying ideologies in the mainstream right and far right). This event 
 brings together two scholars, Sophie Bjork-James and Katie Gaddini, to 
 share their new research on women, gender, and the right in the United 
 States. Examining intersections with race and religion in the political 
 arena, they will reflect on the recent past, the current moment, and 
 possible future directions.\n\nNovember 12 @ 3:30 - 5 p.m.\n\nIn Person: 
 820 Social Sciences Building at UC Berkeley\n\nOnline: 
 https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nw8vN99bRAiZ17-i5Uzilw#/registration\n\nSponsor(s): 
 Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, 
 Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley Institute for Young 
 Americans\n\nMore info: 
 https://events.berkeley.edu/crws/event/270989-women-gender-and-the-right-in-the-united-states\n\n\nABSTRACTS:\n\n"Gender, 
 Sexuality, and the US Far Right," authored by Sophie Bjork-James\n\nA focus 
 on sexual and gender politics unites disparate factions of the contemporary 
 US right. Opposing sexual and gender diversity along with feminism creates 
 multiple points of agreement across Christian nationalism and white 
 nationalism. Such a gendered analysis shows how issues as diverse as 
 abortion bans, anti-trans legislation, and replacement theory stem from a 
 similar gendered and sexual logic, one focused on patriarchal gender roles 
 and reproduction. This talk explores this underlying logic on the right and 
 suggests possible directions for these movements moving forward. Based on 
 over a decade of research on the Christian Right and White Nationalist 
 movements, this talk explores how historical racial norms around the family 
 now animate much of the contemporary conservative and far-right 
 movements.\n\n\n"Activated: Right-Wing Christian Women and Their Impact 
 Today," authored by Katie Gaddini\n\nIn this talk, I trace the political 
 importance of right-wing Christian women from 1970 to present. These women 
 have been the ground forces of conservativism for decades, driven the 
 Christian Right farther right and kept it firmly fixed on issues such as 
 abortion and sexuality. And over the past five years, they’ve also 
 entered public politics like never before. Drawing on ethnographic 
 research, I challenge common misconceptions that label these women as 
 brainwashed puppets of male authority figures, instead uncovering their 
 agency and stop-at-nothing commitment to conservativism. By examining the 
 2024 election through the lens of right-wing Christian women, I examine the 
 complex intersections of gender, religion, and politics in the United 
 States.\n\n\nBios:\n\nSophie Bjork-James is an Assistant Professor of 
 Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and a Visiting Scholar at the 
 Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. She has over ten years of 
 experience researching both the US-based Religious Right and the white 
 nationalist movements. She is the author of The Divine Institution:White 
 Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family (Rutgers 2021, winner of the Anne 
 Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize), and the co-editor of Beyond Populism: Angry 
 Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism (2020). She has been interviewed 
 on the NBC Nightly News, NPR’s All Things Considered, BBC Radio 4’s 
 Today, and in the New York Times.\n\nKatie Gaddini is a Visiting Scholar in 
 the History Department, Stanford University, and Associate Professor of 
 Sociology at the Social Research Institute, University College London 
 (UCL). Her debut book, The Struggle to Stay, was based on over four years 
 of in-depth ethnographic research with single evangelical women in the US 
 and the UK. Her next book is about right-wing Christian women from 1970 to 
 present. Her writing has been published in San Francisco Chronicle, The 
 Conversation, The Hill,Religion & Politics, LA Review of Books, The 
 Marginalia Review, and more.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/31/18870372.php
SUMMARY:Women, Gender and the Reactionary Right in the United States
LOCATION:820 Social Sciences Building at UC Berkeley\nBerkeley, CA \n\nHost: Center 
 for Right-Wing Studies, Social Sciences Dept
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/31/18870372.php
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