Gendered Moral Geopolitics in Hungary: Continuities and Discontinuities since the 1950s in the Symbolic Gender Politics of the Orbán Regime

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this article, I explore the continuities from the 1950s onward along which the Orbán regime has organized its own symbolic gender politics. My key concept is gendered moral geopolitics, and I demonstrate that from the 1950s onward, the various hegemony-building projects expressed their relationship to other geographical areas, most notably the “Western” core, through symbolic gender politics, and the comparison of domestic gender relations with gender relations in the core was a prominent rhetorical element of these symbolic politics. This historical analysis helps to reveal the structural historical roots of the symbolic gender politics of the Orbán regime.