Framing Gender through Affects: Antifeminism and Love in the Spanish Far Right (Vox)

In this article, we aim to explore how affects work within and through gender discourse in the Spanish far right. We address two burning topics: the connection of (anti)gender and far-right politics and the political potential of affects. Opposing traditional views, we argue that far-right groups are not exclusively driven by hate. In Vox leaders' speeches, love appears as a political affective narrative with political effects. Love brings the 'us' together while creating an affective and political border between the 'objects of love' (nation, family, equality and men) and the 'objects of hate' (feminism, immigration, gender and sexual pluralism).