Armitage Archive

More recently, the visibility of these women is asserted by the European far-right through the lens of gender equality vis-à-vis Muslim immigrants who supposedly engage in oppressive gender practices in the name of Islam. This type of framing is described by Farris (2017) as "femonationalism," or the emancipatory rhetoric of women's rights in which the discourse mobilizes on "the profound danger that Muslim males constitute for western European societies, due, above all, to their oppressive treatment of women" (p. 2).