Gendering Fascism

Andrea Germer, Ph.D. (2001), Bochum University, is Professor of Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She has published on propaganda, feminism, gender and nation in Japan, including her recent coedited volume The Handbook of Feminisms in Japan (AUP, 2024). Jasmin Rückert is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She completed two master’s degrees in Gender Studies and Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna in 2017 and 2018. Her Ph.D. project investigates propagandistic and vernacular uses of Japanese photography in Manchuria between 1931 and 1945.

• List of Figures and TableAcknowledgementsNote on ContributorsIntroduction: Technologies of Gender in the Workings of FascismsAndrea GermerPART 1: Organisations and Individual Actors1 Contradictory or Organic Aspects of Fascism? The Role of Women in the Propaganda of the Metaxas Regime (1936–1941)Rosa Vasilaki and George Souvlis2 Rethinking the Relationship between Women, Gender, and Spanish Fascism: ‘Verticality’ as a Mediating ConceptInbal Ofer3 Of Swastika Sisters and Chocolate Girls: Gender and Fascism in Southern Austria during the Short 20th CenturyDagmar Wernitznig4 Mediated Männerbund: A Story of Collaboration and Compliance in Hungary during World War IIAndrea PetőPART 2: Imaginaries, Representations, and the Press5 Family Concepts: Gender, Politics, and Personal Relationships in the Romanian Legionary MovementDiana Axinia6 Gender, Violence, and Nazi Ideology in German War Photography (1939–1945)Vera Marstaller7 A Visual Grammar of Fascism: Gender, Race, and Biopower in Japanese Overseas PropagandaAndrea GermerPART 3: Bodies and Biopolitics8 ‘The Mother of Criminals’: Gender, Fascism, and Sterilisation in the United States, 1877–1945Ryan Anningson9 ‘Women’s Eugenics’ and Takeuchi Shigeyo: Disease Prevention Strategies in 1930s JapanMeguro Akane10 Hormones, Gender, and Fascism: Development and Marketing of Hormone Products in Wartime JapanJasmin RückertPART 4: Transnational Connections and Conversions11 ‘Comrades beyond Borders’: The Women of the Spanish Falange, Fascist Italy, and Nazi GermanyToni Morant12 Fascism, Gender, and Displays of Art: The Exhibition of Italian Women Artists in Finland and Estonia in 1937Hanna-Leena Paloposki13 ‘Propaganda for Our Italy’: Ruth Williams Ricci, Gendered Mobility, and Fascist Italy’s African Empire, 1935–1941Brian J Griffith14 No Labels: How Lisa Sergio Translated Fascism, Feminism, and Herself on RadioCaroline WaldronIndex