This month, RESOLVE highlights recommended readings from the Policy Note, "Tackling Women’s Support of Far-Right Extremism: Experiences from Germany." In this note, author Seran de Leede explores the wide-ranging motivations of women joining far-right extremist groups and the different roles they can play in them. She includes wider research on why women leave far-right extremist groups and offers lessons learned and recommendations that may be helpful in optimizing prevention and exit programs aimed at women in far-right extremist groups beyond the German context. The publications in this What We’re Reading were suggested by the author to offer a more in-depth look at women in far-right extremist groups and prevent and exit- programs for women in far-right extremist groups.

On women in far-right extremist groups

Dauber, Andrea S. “Not all Nazis are men: Women’s underestimated potential for violence in German Neo-Nazism. Continuation of the past or novel phenomenon?.” In Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence: Part B (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 18B) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014: 171-194. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-21262014000018B011.

Ebner, Julia, and Jacob Davey. “How Women Advance the Internationalization of the Far-Right.” In Perspectives on the Future of Women, Gender and Violent Extremism, edited by Audrey Alexander. Washington, D.C.: George Washington University Program on Extremism, 2019. https://extremism.gwu. edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Perspectives%20on%20the%20Future%20of%20Women%2C%20 Gender%20and%20Violent%20Extremism.pdf.

Mushaben, Joyce Marie. “The rise of Femi-Nazis? Female participation in right-extremist movements in unified Germany,” German Politics 5, no. 2 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1080/09644009608404440.

Röpke, Andrea, and Andreas Speit. Mädelsache!, Frauen in der Neonazi-Szene. Christoph Links Verlag: Berlin, 2011. Köttig, Michaela, Renate Bitzan, Andrea Petö. Gender and Far Right politics in Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

On prevent and exit- programs and women in far-right extremist groups

Baer, Silke, Oliver Kossack, and Anika Posselius. “Gender Might Be the Key. Gender-Reflective Approaches and Guidelines in Prevention of and Intervention in Right-Wing Extremism in Europe.” In Gender and Far Right politics in Europe, edited by Michaela Köttig, Renate Bitzan, Andrea Petö, 351-369. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43533-6.

Glaser, Michaela. “Disengagement and Deradicalization Work with Girls and Young Women—Experiences from Germany.” In Gender and Far Right politics in Europe, edited by Michaela Köttig, Renate Bitzan, Andrea Petö, 337-350. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43533-6.

Latif, Mehr, Kathleen Blee, Matthew Demichele, Pete Simi, and Shayna Alexander. “Why White Supremacist Women Become Disillusioned, and Why They Leave.” The Sociological Quaterly 61, no. 3, (2020): 378. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2019.1625733.

WomEx Final Conference October 1-2, 2014. WomEx, 2014. https://www.cultures-interactive.de/tl_files/ projekte/womex/Konferenzmappe_Abschlusstagung_2014_en.pdf.

Women/girls in violent extremism—WomEx. http://www.womex.org/en.