TY - JOUR
T1 - Legacies and recipe of constructing successful righteous motherhood policies
T2 - The case of Hungary
AU - Pető, Andrea
AU - Juhász, Borbála
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024
PY - 2024/3/1
Y1 - 2024/3/1
N2 - This study will show how the Hungarian ruling FIDESZ government has built its so-called family-friendly system, which has both nationalized and privatized the process of reproduction together. First, we discuss the demographic discourse and family mainstreaming as the basis of “righteous motherhood” producing more children together with hate campaigns, second, we argue that one of the reasons why most women voted for FIDESZ despite the collapsing health care system, the education system, growing inflation, corruption, and Putin's friendship is exactly the convincingly crafted cult of righteous motherhood. While some of the literature still uses Nazi Germany as a historical analogy to explain the FIDESZ government's family policy as forcing women back into the kitchen, with this it loses the ability to recognize what is new in the illiberal politics with its built-in conscious application of ambiguities of righteous motherhood, we call Janus-faced, secures electoral support to these regimes.
AB - This study will show how the Hungarian ruling FIDESZ government has built its so-called family-friendly system, which has both nationalized and privatized the process of reproduction together. First, we discuss the demographic discourse and family mainstreaming as the basis of “righteous motherhood” producing more children together with hate campaigns, second, we argue that one of the reasons why most women voted for FIDESZ despite the collapsing health care system, the education system, growing inflation, corruption, and Putin's friendship is exactly the convincingly crafted cult of righteous motherhood. While some of the literature still uses Nazi Germany as a historical analogy to explain the FIDESZ government's family policy as forcing women back into the kitchen, with this it loses the ability to recognize what is new in the illiberal politics with its built-in conscious application of ambiguities of righteous motherhood, we call Janus-faced, secures electoral support to these regimes.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102885
DO - 10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102885
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85187573150
SN - 0277-5395
VL - 103
JO - Women's Studies International Forum
JF - Women's Studies International Forum
M1 - 102885
ER -