Publications

Peer-reviewed articles in academic journals

Calderaro, C. (2025). “Analyser les reconfigurations du genre à l’extrême droite : vers une lecture relationnelle et dynamique”. Revue française de science politique, 75(3), 594-597.

Calderaro, Charlène (2025). “Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France”. Politics & Gender, 21(4), 931-959.

Calderaro, Charlène (2023). “The racialisation of sexism: how race frames shape anti-street harassment policies in Britain and France”. Policy & Politics, 51(3), 413-438.

Calderaro, Charlène (2022). “La critique féministe-marxiste : du travail domestique aux théories de la reproduction sociale”. Travail, genre et sociétés, 48(2), 113-128.

Calderaro, Charlène, & Lépinard, Éléonore (2021). “Intersectionality as a new feeling rule for young feminists: Race and feminist relations in France and Switzerland”. European Journal of Women’s Studies28(3), 387-404.

Calderaro, Charlène, & Giametta, Calogero (2019). “‘The Problem of Prostitution’: Repressive policies in the name of migration control, public order, and women’s rights in France”. Anti-Trafficking Review, (12), 155–171.

PhD dissertation

Calderaro, Charlène (2024). Far-Righting Feminism? Criminalising Street Harassment in France and Britain. University of Lausanne.
Jury: Éléonore Lépinard and Sara R. Farris (co-supervisors), Rossella Ciccia, Magali Della Sudda, Marylène Lieber, Nonna Mayer, Véronique Mottier.

My dissertation is currently under embargo. A summary is available here. If you wish to access the full dissertation, please feel free to reach out.

Chapters in edited volumes

Farris, Sara R. & Calderaro, Charlène (2025). “Femonationalism, Feminism and Religion” in  The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe, Effie Fokas and Alberta Giorgi (dirs.), London: Routledge.

Calderaro, Charlène (2024). “Quand l’extrême-droite s’approprie le féminisme”, In Extrême-droite : la résistible ascension, Ugo Palheta (Ed.), 117–127. Paris: Amsterdam

Calderaro, Charlène (2022). “Exploring Femonationlist Convergences”, In Homonationalism, Femonationalism, Ablenationalism, Critical Pedagogies Contextualised, Angeliki Sifaki, C. L. Quinan, Katarina Lončarević (Eds.), 85–103. London: Routledge.

Calderaro, Charlène (2022). “Fémonationalisme”, In Dictionnaire du Genre en Traduction, Marta Segarra and Ilana Eloit (Eds.). Paris: CNRS éditions

Other publications, blog contributions and interviews

Calderaro, Charlène (2025). Interview: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France. Reactionary Politics Research Network blog, 25 March.

  • Translation in Italian: “L’appropriazione del femminismo da parte delle donne di estrema destra in Francia”, Progetto Me Ti, February 2026.

Calderaro, Charlène (2025). Entretien: Féminisme identitaire : l’arme culturelle de l’extrême-droite. Média Les Enflamé.es, June 25.

Calderaro, Charlène (2024). “French Femonationalism“, In “Head On: Facing the Far Right”. Green European Journal, December 5.

Calderaro, Charlène (2023). “The Racialisation of Sexim in Policy-making Against Gender-based Violence: a Comparison Between Britain and France”, Policy & Politics journal blog, September 6.

Calderaro, Charlène (2024). “French Femonationalism“, In “Head On: Facing the Far Right”. Green European Journal, December 5.

Calderaro, Charlène (2024). “Le fémonationalisme du FN/RN : une appropriation du féminisme à des fins racistes”. [The Femonationalism of the National Front/Rally: an appropriation of feminism for racist ends]. Contretemps, June 20.

Calderaro, Charlène (2023). “The Racialisation of Sexim in Policy-making Against Gender-based Violence: a Comparison Between Britain and France”, Policy & Politics journal blog, September 6.

Fortunati, Leopoldina, Charlène Calderaro and Andrea Zanotti (2023). “Entre féminisme et opéraisme : penser la reproduction sociale. Entretien avec Leopoldina Fortunati” [“Between Feminism and Operaism: Thinking Social Reproduction. Interview with Leopoldina Fortunati”]. Contretemps, March 8.

Giametta, Calogero and Charlène Calderaro (2019). “Repressing Sex Work in France in the Name of Women’s Rights and Migrants’ Control”. Open Democracy, November 22.

Forthcoming & work in progress

Calderaro, Charlène. “Femonationalism”. In Global Anti-Gender Studies Dictionary, M. Cabral Grinspan, S. Corrêa, R. Kuhar et D. Paternotte (Eds). (in progress)

Calderaro, Charlène. “Fémonationalisme”. In Dictionaire du Genre, D. Bernard, G. De Pascale, M. Devresse, M. Gerardin-Laverge et J. Pieret (Eds.), Presses Universitaires de Bruxelles. (forthcoming)

Calderaro, Charlène. “De L’Insoumise à la Ménagère : Mobilisations féministes genevoises autour du travail domestique (1972–1990)” (in progress)

Calderaro, Charlène. “Feeling Unsafe, Moving Right? The Mobilizing Potential of Street Harassment in Driving Women’s Far-Right Activism”. (in progress)

Calderaro, Charlène. “Transnational Sisterhood at the Far-Right? Appropriating Feminism Across Europe”. (in progress)