What motivates women to join or lead far-right movements? What blind spots shape public and media debates about women in these movements, and how do women navigate the tension between personal empowerment and traditional gender roles? Which role do social media, alternative platforms, and lifestyle aesthetics play in mobilizing women and broadening the appeal of far-right politics? How does religion play into it? Finally, what does the growing visibility of women in far-right movements mean for feminist politics and women in politics more broadly?  

On the last day of Women's History Month, we will discuss these and further questions with:

 

Dr. Katie Gaddini is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Social Research Institute, University College London (UCL) and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, Department of Sociology. From 2022-2026 she is a United Kingdom Research & Innovation (UKRI) Research Fellow at Stanford University and UCL. Her book, Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right, on Christian women and conservative politics from 1970 to present, based on over 10 years of ethnographic research, will be published in June 2026 by W.W. Norton. Her debut book, The Struggle to Stay, was based on over four years of in-depth ethnographic research with single evangelical women in the US and the UK. Her writing has been published in TIME magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, The Conversation, Religion & Politics, LA Review of Books, The Marginalia Review, and more. She has given expert opinion to media outlets including New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, Newsweek, NPR, The i, and international outlets in France, Spain, Greece, Colombia, Germany, Canada, Norway, Australia and Turkey. She is the co-host of the podcast Blessed & Stressed: Religion & Politics Across the Pond. Katie holds master’s degrees from Boston College and the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge.  

Alexandra Eul writes reports, columns, conducts interviews and moderates events on socio-political issues. She was an editor at the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger magazine and worked for Deutschlandfunk-Nachrichten. As a recipient of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, Eul has conducted research in the US and Canada and reported from India as one of the 'Media Ambassadors India-Germany'.

 

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This event is kindly supported by the Federal Foreign Office.