Invisible Party Members

The first analytical chapter, based on the documents of the women’s section of the Arrow Cross Party, party press material and memoires, and documents collected by the people’s tribunals, shows who these women were, in what kinds of activities they were engaged in, what kinds of political, professional and material aspirations they had; it argues that most Hungarian far-right women belonged to the first generation of Hungarian intellectual and wage earning women and joined the ranks of the far-right because they did not find the “conservative offer”of the Horthy regime acceptable as it would have forced them into the role of care-takers, but at the same time the leftist alternative, i.e. the trade unions or the social democratic movement was also unappealing for them after the failed 1919 revolution.