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This special issue examines the vital role of reproductive politics in the recent global ascension of right-wing movements and regimes across the globe. We consider how a new kind of ‘reproductive righteousness’ informs claims around race, immigration, fertility, gender, sexuality, and demography. The content emerges from an ongoing international feminist collaboration that brings interdisciplinary feminist scholars into dialogue across nationally specific cases.

The papers closely examine varying expressions of what we call ‘reproductive righteousness,’ such as political imagery and rhetoric, cultural narratives, legal discourse, and social movement strategies, to collectively develop a more robust theory of its importance to the rising global right. While idioms of reproduction are not new features of right-wing expressions of state, racial, and religious power, analyzing how reproduction is systematically centered within recent expressions of them, and how it has become a fundamental context for violence and resistance, is a crucial task.

By highlighting how quasi-religious reproductive politics propel right-wing movements, this special issue advances conversations at the nexus of gender, sexuality, race, religion, and power while showcasing progressive possibilities for feminist resistance.