Desperate Tradwives: How far-right women weaponise social media – with Marie Le Conte and Eviane Leidig

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The far-right is often associated with angry white men — but their female counterparts might be even more dangerous. Dr Eviane Leidig, a postdoctoral fellow at Tilburg University and author of The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization. She joins Marie Le Conte in The Bunker, to discuss how these women weaponise social media to disseminate extremist ideologies. Dr Eviane Leidig’s book: The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization “These women are normalising and legitimising extreme ideas to mainstream audiences; they are not on fringe platforms, they are very much out in the open.” – Eviane Leidig “There is a moment in which all these women describe feeling deeply unhappy and depressed with their lives — they attribute this to feminism, and prescribe traditionalism as the antidote.” – Eviane Leidig Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Marie Le Conte. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:25.9	In her new book, The Woman of the Far Right, Social Media Influences and Online Radicalisation,
1:31.1	she looks at the world women playing spreading extremism on the internet.
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1:46.1	Hi Evian.
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