Misogyny as a Gateway to Far-Right Hate: A Quantitative Exploration in Great Britain

Huber, Antoinette and Hart, Gavin and Littler, Mark (2023) Misogyny as a Gateway to Far-Right Hate: A Quantitative Exploration in Great Britain. In: The Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9781032187976

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Abstract

The increasing spread of far-right ideas in recent decades has driven an important selection of contemporary scholarship on extremism. Alongside this development, the scholarly community has witnessed the growth of particularly virulent forms of extreme misogyny. Both of these shifts have been facilitated by the ease with which extremist narratives can be shared and consumed online. One of the key issues that require further exploration relates to the strength of the connection between far-right ideas and extreme anti-feminism. Additionally, following questions raised in recent research, it is useful to consider whether misogynistic ideas can act as a gateway into far-right ideology. This chapter contributes original empirical research that offers new insight into these questions. The chapter details the findings of quantitative research into the relationship between misogynistic views and ideas associated with the far right. This is achieved through regression analysis of data drawn from male respondents to the European Values Survey (EVS) in Great Britain that models misogynistic thinking and far-right attitudes. It is argued that while there is strong evidence of a relationship between misogyny and the far right it is not clear that one leads to the other. Rather the data suggests a more fundamental and organic relationship between misogyny and far-right attitudes. These ideas seem to enjoy a complementary relationship though not necessarily a causal one.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Business, Law and Criminology > School of Law and Criminology
Depositing User:	Gavin Hart
Date Deposited:	13 May 2024 14:23
Last Modified:	13 May 2024 14:23
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4228

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