NCJ Number
179743
Journal
Intelligence Report Issue: 95 Dated: Summer 1999 Pages: 12-19
Editor(s)
Mark Potok
Date Published
1999
Length
8 pages
Annotation
Females now represent 25 percent of the membership of many groups in the radical right, are increasingly re-examining their position in the world of white supremacy, and are often espousing a new female activism and even leadership.
Abstract
These women in the past have been Nazi Aryan breeders who stayed home as helpmates and secretaries to the neo-Nazi leaders and transmitters of Aryan values to the next generation. Most reject feminism as a Jewish plot to destroy the white race, but they are leading efforts to build a viable movement. Forums for and about women are proliferating, particularly on the Internet. Women's groups such as the Sisterhood of the neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator work to recruit women to the cause and have developed organizing techniques for women. One group uses the Internet and newsletters to advise racist women to raise more children, to push jewelry that celebrates their racial heritage, and to offer information on self-defense. Some groups explicitly reject the notion that their women's forums are meant to further Aryan romance and emphasize that they are not dating services. The groups make clear that they are not feminist and also say that part of their job is to create racist mates for men. However, they do not have uniform perspectives; some praise the women's movement and others clearly reject nontraditional roles. The current debate about women cuts across all kinds of ideological lines on the extreme right. Photographs