TY  - RPRT
A1  - Gąsiorowska, Halina
T1  - Abortion as a contentious issue in Polish Culture war. Women and their rights in nationalists' strategies
T2  - sicherheitspolitik-blog.de
N2  - This is the 26. article in our series Trouble on the­ Far-Right.
In Poland, the long lasting culture war1 over gender roles and religion has been easily framed by the far right into Samuel Huntington’s concept of the “clash of civilizations”. A well-known juxtaposition used in right-wing propaganda: ‘civilization of life’ vs. ‘civilization of death’ in reference to anti-abortion and pro-choice movements respectively is now used to refer to Christians and Muslims. The role of Polish women and the right to abortion remain in the center of the conflict of modernity.
In Europe, the far right heats up the moral panic caused by fear of terrorism, pointing to Muslims as a threat to ‘European’ liberties, especially women’s and LGBT rights. The assaults on women celebrating New Year’s Eve on the streets of Cologne, serve Pegida and many nationalist organizations in Europe as a proof of Arab’s attitude to ‘Western’ expressions of femininity. This argument in the anti-immigration discourse of the far right is well-grounded in nationalists’ ideal of a strong man defending ‘his’ woman. Although, the task might be understood literally, in the context of the assaults in Cologne, protecting wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the nation has a broader symbolic meaning. Scholars interested in relationship between gender and nation, state that in nationalists discourse women symbolize the nation and are bearers of values.2 In islamophobic discourse female citizens of Europe signify Europeans’ equality and freedom...
KW  - abortion
KW  - anti-abortion
KW  - antifeminist
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Europe
KW  - National Movement
KW  - Poland
KW  - Women for the Nation
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/40215
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-402150
UR  - http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2016/05/19/abortion-as-a-contentious-issue-in-polish-culture-war-women-and-their-rights-in-nationalists-strategies/
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CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -