Description
Book SynopsisThis book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against gender ideology and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender campaigns, which emerged around 2010 in Europe, are not a simple continuation of the anti-feminist backlash dating back to the 1970s, but part of a new political configuration. Opposition to gender has become a key element of the rise of right-wing populism, which successfully harnesses the anxiety, shame and anger caused by neoliberalism and threatens to destroy liberal democracy.
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment offers a novel conceptualization of the relationship between the ultraconservative anti-gender movement and right-wing populist parties, examining the opportunistic synergy between these actors. The authors map the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement, putting the Polish case in a comparative perspective. They show tha
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
