Antisemitischer Antifeminismus in der Wochenzeitung Junge Freiheit
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Antifeminism, the opponent of feminism, can be understood as a worldview and position against liberalization and de-normalization processes of gender relations. It is based on an emancipatory, power-critical feminism that permeates all aspects of society and exposes male-centered coercion and power relations. Various antifeminist discourse strands and positions are known from research, which are propagated by a heterogeneous field of actors. Antifeminism reaches far into the center of society and has great potential for mobilization. Antifeminist arguments, which are easily accepted by society, also allow more taboo worldviews such as anti-Semitism to find their way into society's thinking.
The historically far-reaching connections between antisemitism and antifeminism have already been examined several times. Birsl (2020) describes this not only as an ideological entanglement, but also as decidedly antisemitic antifeminism. This study takes up Birsl's preliminary considerations and examines which antifeminisms occur in the new-right weekly newspaper “Junge Freiheit” and to what extent these are structured in an antisemitic way per se. The high-circulation newspaper is a particularly exciting subject of investigation, as it is located at the interface between conservatism and right-wing extremism and is considered the mouthpiece of the new right and the AfD.
This study thus represents the first systematic analysis of antisemitic antifeminism in research. The question of the role of conspiracy ideologies in the articulation of antifeminism is parallely examined. The starting point for this question is Salzborn's (2021) assumption that conspiracy ideologies are always also antisemitic.
The necessity and relevance of investigating (antisemitic) antifeminism is not only justified by the increase in antifeminist incidents, but also by the fact that antisemitically structured antifeminism makes ethnically based antisemitism sayable again. To answer the central question of this study, issues of Junge Freiheit in the period from January 2022 to September 2023 were examined. First, a qualitative content analysis was carried out using inductive and deductive categories according to Mayring. This was followed by a qualitative frame analysis according to Gamson and Modigliani, which forms the core of the study. Frames can be understood as general patterns of perception, structure and interpretation with which events and information are meaningfully combined and social behavior is influenced.
The analysis, which is based on a corpus of 80 articles, revealed that antifeminism can be found in various subject areas of Junge Freiheit. Particularly frequent antifeminist references were made to the topics of deviation from gender and sexual norms and from a traditional family image. In addition, 23 antifeminist frames were reconstructed. Eight frames are discussed in the study. In four of these frames, antifeminism with an antisemitic basis can be clearly identified. On a structural level, antifeminism becomes an antisemitic projection surface for the threats of modernity. In the other four frames, the antifeminism that emerges is largely without antisemitic or conspiracy ideological references, but not completely. The stringency of antisemitic antifeminism thus varies in the individual frames that have been identified. The reference to antisemitic antifeminism in Junge Freiheit is consistently conspiracy-ideological through recourse to narratives of a “Great Replacement”, a “New World Order” or the antisemitic image of a puppeteer operating in the background.
The insights gained support Birsl's thoughts on antisemitically structured antifeminism and confirm Salzborn's assumption that conspiracy ideologies are always antisemitic. The definition of antifeminism should therefore be expanded to include the conspiracy ideological, antisemitic component. Further research is required to validate this extension of the theory.
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Created: 2024Issued: 2024-12-05Updated: 2024-12-05
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Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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ger
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VerschwörungsideologienJunge Freiheitantisemitic antifeminismAntisemitismusconspiracy theoryAntifeminismusantisemitischer Antifeminismus
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Bockelmann, Foelke Hanna (0009-0007-5269-148X): Antisemitischer Antifeminismus in der Wochenzeitung Junge Freiheit. : Philipps-Universität Marburg 2024-12-05. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/ed.2024.0009.