In person icon Anti-gender mobilizations in contemporary world and feminist responses to this trend

Abstract

The anti-gender movement, initiated by the Vatican, has involved a variety of strategies and actors with goals both transnational such as opposing the ratification of the Istanbul convention, and local such as introducing a total ban on abortion in Poland, campaigns against sex education in German schools, attacks on gender scholars in Brasil, and mass protests against marriage equality in France. Today’s right-wing opposition to gender and sexual equality takes the form of a transnational political movement working in alliance with right-wing populists. In recent years we can observe the escalating dynamics of anti-gender, homophobic and xenophobic right-wing mobilizations, which play out at global, transnational, national and local levels, challenging the feminist struggles for equality, solidarity and freedom. This panel aims to bring together up-to-date scholarship which will allow us to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of the struggles for and against gender+ equality nowadays in Europe. The contributors will discuss both: the conceptualizations of the anti-gender mobilization and the feminist efforts to counter anti-gender opposition. The goal is to identify and examine key aspects of the anti-gender ideology and organizing along with the analysis of different feminist responses to these trends, that are rooted in theories and provided via feminist engagements with/in formal institutions.

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