Armitage Archive

Accordingly, women's involvement centers upon traditional, heteronormative gender roles that are premised on the archetypes of femininity and masculinity. Their primary function is to serve as wives and mothers for the movement, what Mattheis terms "alt-maternalism", or "new maternalist logics paired with anti-multiculturalism, white ethno-nationalism, and hate frameworks" (p. 143). This alt-maternalism becomes racialized into the desire for family and stability.