The Shieldmaidens

American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism

Author: Seyward Darby
ISBN: 9780316487788

Journalist Seyward Darby takes the reader deep inside the lives of three women whose experience in the white nationalist movement pulls back the curtain on racial and political extremism in America todayBeginning in December 2016, journalist Seyward Darby began working to find, meet, and understand the women of the so-called "alt-right." With women dominating the formal resistance to the Trump administration, most notably through the Women's Marches, Darby wanted to know - why were women, at the same time, increasingly joining a movement that espouses racism and anti-feminism, and who are they? Over the course of fourteen months, as Darby met, interviewed, and researched dozens of alt-right women, she began to piece together surprising conclusions that only raised more questions. Many of the radicalized women had come from the left, not the right; many consciously rejected a feminism they had previously espoused. Darby wondered: How do toxic rightwing ideas spread and become knitted i

Publisher: Little, Brown
Publish Date: 2020-06-02

Subjects: Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Political Science / Women in Politics

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