Marine Le Pen as a rightwing populist is rather adored by supporters for her extraordinary ability to be a sexual and caring woman, and a virile masculine figure at the same time.
While motherhood may be associated with nurturing bodies and minds, in contemporary Hindu nationalist discourse it also acquires a more active obligation to protect.
Gender perspectives are essential to understanding the means through which populist radical right parties instrumentalize women’s rights, often in profoundly contradictory terms.
