While populist discourse and practice express the desire to restore the clear and unambiguous gender roles circumscribed by patriarchy, they also invite women to become vocal, engage in activism, and in leadership.
Looking back at the work on populism that has appeared on openDemocracy, references to women or to gender are not uncommon. There is a fairly widespread recognition that gender features in the emergence of populist politics in some form. What is equally interesting, is that not many of the articles reviewed explore how gender can be meaningfully deployed in our exploration of populism.
For this ‘walking tour’, I have selected articles that explore the actual ways populism is a gendered phenomenon and have organized these in terms of different perspectives, emphases and ways of approaching the gender issue.
