["Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article introduces the concept of nationalist–feminine bifurcation to analyse how nationalist–populist regimes construct moral orders through gendered representations. It explores how women are simultaneously portrayed as the idealized ‘national woman’ and the excluded ‘moral threat’. Through a comparative discourse analysis of four cases—Poland (PiS), India (BJP), Brazil (Bolsonaro era) and Hungary (Fidesz)—the study reveals how female bodies are coded as carriers of national purity, while alternative femininities are marginalized. It also highlights how feminist movements challenge these symbolic orders by articulating alternative national subjectivities. The article contributes to the theoretical understanding of nationalism's gendered foundations.\n"]