‘It’s a mistake to imagine that simply because one is a lady, one goes to vote for a feminist agenda.’
Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first girl prime minister, is the most recent in a line of feminine nationalists occupying high-ranking political positions throughout Europe.
Like France’s Marine Le Pen and Germany’s Alice Weidel, Meloni’s ascent has been linked to a phenomenon often known as femonationalism – the place feminist concepts are used to advance a nationalist agenda.
On UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill is joined by students, Sara Farris, who coined the time period femonationalism, Mayanthi Fernando and Cynthia Miller-Idriss, for a dialogue on femonationalism and why so many ladies have interaction with far-right actions when they’re seemingly at odds with their very own pursuits.