How does gender and sexuality figure in fascist ideology and fascist movements? How do notions of masculinity and femininity circulate on the Right, in conservative and in counter-revolutionary discourse? What distinguishes a conservative sexual politics from a fascist sexual politics? In this course, we will take up these questions, with an ear to discerning how the Right speaks to and about men, how it speaks to and about women, how this has changed over time and how this varies across place. We will consider at the institution of the family in fascist ideology, as well as questions of sex and violence, race and reproduction, heritage and property, as well as the gendered dynamics of the crowd and its relationship to mass politics. We will also look at the new fascisms emerging in different parts of the world, for how they are like and unlike fascisms of the twentieth century and how they deploy sex in new and old ways. Our readings will focus on theoretical and interpretive studies of fascism, including marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytic perspectives. We will study the writings of Wilhelm Reich, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Klaus Theweleit, Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Maria Macciocchi, Andrea Dworkin, Dagmar Herzog, and Judith Butler.