Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

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Overview

This book aims to make sense of political developments towards more gender conservative populist movements from a feminist perspective, analyzing both ultraconservative campaigns against gender, which started around 2010, and the mass feminist mobilizations responding to them since 2016.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367679507
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 05/31/2023
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality and Politics
Pages: 212
Sales rank: 284,193
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Agnieszka Graff is Associate Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. She is a feminist activist and public intellectual. Her articles on gender in Polish and U.S. culture have appeared in Public Culture, Signs, European Journal of Women's Studies, Feminist Studies and East European Politics and Societies. She has authored five books of feminist essays in Polish, among them Świat bez kobiet (World without Women, 2001, anniversary edition 2021) and Matka feministka (Mother and Feminist, 2014, Spanish edition 2021). She coedited the Spring 2019 theme issue of Signs "Gender and the rise of the global right."

Elżbieta Korolczuk is Associate Professor at Södertörn University in Stockholm and at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. She is a sociologist, commentator and women's and human rights activist. Her research interests involve gender, social movements, civil society and politics of reproduction. Her recent publications include two edited volumes: Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland (co-edited with Kerstin Jacobsson, 2017) and Rebellious Parents: Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia (co-edited with Katalin Fábián, 2017), as well as the coauthored volume Bunt kobiet. Czarne Protesty i Strajki Kobiet (Women’s Rebellion. Black Protests and Women’s Strikes, 2019, with Beata Kowalska, Jennifer Ramme and Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez).

Table of Contents

Introduction: the demonization of "gender" and the crisis of democracy 1 Gender, anti-gender and right-wing populism: recasting the debate 2 Mapping the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement: from religious trend to political struggle 3 “Worse than communism and Nazism put together”: Poland’s anti-gender campaigns in a comparative perspective 4 Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: the uses and abuses of the anti-colonial frame 5 Anxious parents and children in danger: the family as a refuge from neoliberalism 6 Counteracting anti-gender movements: toward a populist feminism? Conclusion: gender in the populist moment
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