Cover not available

Article published In: Journal of Language and Politics
Vol. 4:3 (2005) ► pp.397–420

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required

The discursive representation of masculinity in the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)

 | Humboldt University
Published online: 21 March 2006
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.4.3.04ged
Organizations of the extreme right are clearly dominated by men, much more than parties of the political mainstream. But instead of analyzing the specific attractiveness of right-wing extremism for men, gender sensible research in this field has mainly focused on women. This explorative study will reconstruct discourses of masculinity within the Freedom Party of Austria, which is part of the national government since 2000. The analysis of two of the party’s newspapers and of group discussions conducted with young party activists will show the party’s willingness to seize on the insecurities that men experience in the ongoing transformation of gender relations. We can find a general orientation towards a traditional concept of gender roles, but the ways of developing and distributing this knowledge differ widely, depending on the specific conditions in the different political arenas in which the newspapers and the activists are involved.
References (18)
References
Amann, Klaus and Hirschauer, Stefan. 1997. Die Befremdung der eigenen Kultur. Ein Programm. In: Stefan Hirschauer and Klaus Amann (eds). Die Befremdung der eigenen Kultur. Zur ethnographischen Herausforderung soziologischer Empirie. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 7–52.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
AmesBerger, Helga and Halbmayr, Brigitte. 2002. Österreich: Die Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs. In: Helga AmesBerger and Brigitte Halbmayr (eds). Rechtsextreme Parteien — eine mögliche Heimat für Frauen? Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 251–405.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Betz, Hans-Georg and Immerfall, Stefan (eds.) 1998. The New Politics of the Right. Neo-Populist Parties and Movements in Established Democracies. New York: St. Martin’s Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bohnsack, Ralf. 1999. Rekonstruktive Sozialforschung. Einführung in Methodologie und Praxis qualitativer Forschung. Opladen: Leske + Budrich.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bourdieu, Pierre and Wacquant, Loic J. D. 1992. The Purpose of Reflexive Sociology (The Chicago Workshop). In: Pierre Bourdieu and Loic J.D. Wacquant. An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 61–215.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Geden, Oliver. 2004. Männlichkeitskonstruktionen in der Freiheitlichen Partei Österreichs. Eine qualitativ-empirische Untersuchung. Opladen: Leske + Budrich. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hainsworth, Paul (ed.). 2000. The Politics of the Extreme Right. From the Margins to the Mainstream. London, New York: Pinter.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Heither, Dietrich, Gehler, Michael, Kurth, Alexandra and Schäfer, Gerhard. 1997. Blut und Paukboden. Eine Geschichte der Burschenschaften. Frankfurt/M.: Fischer.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Holmes, Douglas R. 2000. Integral Europe. Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Keller, Reiner. 2001. Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse. In: Reiner Keller, Andreas Hirseland, Werner Schneider and Willy Viehöver (eds). Handbuch Sozialwissenschaftliche Diskursanalyse. Band 1: Theorien und Methoden. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 113–143. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Meuser, Michael. 1998. Geschlecht und Männlichkeit. Soziologische Theorie und kulturelle Deutungsmuster. Opladen: Leske + Budrich. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mudde, Cas. 1996. The war of words. Defining the extreme right party family. West European Politics 19(2), 225–248. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Nullmeier, Frank, Pritzlaff, Tanja and Wiesner, Achim. 2003. Mikro-Policy-Analyse. Ethnographische Politikforschung am Beispiel Hochschulpolitik. Frankfurt/M., New York: Campus.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Plasser, Fritz and Ulram, Peter A. (eds.) 2003. Wahlverhalten in Bewegung. Analysen zur Nationalratswahl 2002. Vienna: WUV.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rösslhumer, Maria and Appelt, Birgit. 2001. Hauptsache Frauen. Politikerinnen in der Zweiten Republik. Graz, Vienna, Köln: Böhlau.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Schwab-Trapp, Michael. 2001. Diskurs als soziologisches Konzept. Bausteine für eine soziologisch orientierte Diskursanalyse. In: Reiner Keller, Andreas Hirseland, Werner Schneider and Willy Viehöver (eds). Handbuch Sozialwissenschaftliche Diskursanalyse. Band I: Theorien und Methoden. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 261–283. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wodak, Ruth and Pelinka, Anton (eds.) 2002. The Haider Phenomenon in Austria. New Brunswick: Transaction.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wodak, Ruth and van Dijk, Teun A. (eds.) 2000. Racism at the Top. Parliamentary Discourses on Ethnic Issues in Six European States. Klagenfurt: Drava.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cited by (11)

Cited by 11 other publications

Meret, Susi & Francesca Scrinzi
2024. The Far-Right, Anti-gender Politics and Neoliberal Globalization. In The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship, ► pp. 403 ff. DOI logo
Petrogiannis, Vasileios & Lenita Freidenvall
2022. Political rhetoric, identities, and dominant gender representations: hegemonic masculinity in service of pro-austerity rhetoric in Greek political discourse. NORMA 17:2 ► pp. 88 ff. DOI logo
Gillespie, Liam
2021. Scenes of Violence. In The Psychosocial Imaginaries of Defence Nationalism [Studies in the Psychosocial, ], ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Keil, André
2020. “We need to rediscover our manliness…”. Journal of Language and Politics 19:1 ► pp. 107 ff. DOI logo
van de Wetering, Denis, Andreas Zick & Hannah Mietke
2018. Extreme Right Women, (Dis-)Engagement and Deradicalisation: Findings from a Qualitative Study. International Journal of Developmental Science: Biopsychosocial Mechanisms of Change, Human Development, and Psychopathology - Perspectives from Psychology, Neuroscience, and Genetics 12:1-2 ► pp. 115 ff. DOI logo
En, Boka, Michael En & Mercedes Pöll
2017. A World Without Gender? The Struggle of Austria’s Far Right over What It Means to Be Human: An Analysis of Barbara Rosenkranz’ Book MenschInnen. In Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe, ► pp. 235 ff. DOI logo
Trittin, Hannah & Dennis Schoeneborn
2017. Diversity as Polyphony: Reconceptualizing Diversity Management from a Communication-Centered Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics 144:2 ► pp. 305 ff. DOI logo
Kinnvall, Catarina
2014. Fear, Insecurity and the (Re)Emergence of the Far Right in Europe. In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology, ► pp. 316 ff. DOI logo
Kinnvall, Catarina
2015. Borders and Fear: Insecurity, Gender and the Far Right in Europe. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 23:4 ► pp. 514 ff. DOI logo
Kinnvall, Catarina
2018. Ontological Insecurities and Postcolonial Imaginaries. Humanity & Society 42:4 ► pp. 523 ff. DOI logo
Norocel, Ov Cristian
2010. Romania is a family and it needs a strict father: conceptual metaphors at work in radical right populist discourses. Nationalities Papers 38:5 ► pp. 705 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 13 november 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue