ISBN:
9783031542237
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XXXII, 270 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2024.
Series Statement:
Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
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Keywords:
Sex.
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Queer theory.
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Feminism.
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Feminist theory.
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Identity politics.
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Social policy.
Abstract:
1: Introduction: Thinking anti-gender politics transnationally -- 2: Brazil: A catastrophic hotspot of anti-gender politics – Present realities, hovering specters, transnational connections -- 3:‘Pro-Family’ campaigning against comprehensive sexuality education in Eastern and Southern Africa -- 4: Thinking from Hanau to Christchurch and El Paso: Anti-gender ideology and the sexual politics of transnational right-wing terrorism -- 5: The battle to be ‘normal’: Anti-gender politics in Japan -- 6: Relational politics of anti-gender and anti-feminist ideology in India: Notes on fascism, feminist solidarity and liberatory politics -- 7: Child protection, sexuality and LGBT+ rights – Anti-gender politics in populist illiberal Hungary -- 8: The emergence and trajectory of the anti-gender movement in Turkey -- 9: The ‘gender ideology’ rhetoric and the de-secularization process: A reflection situated in Latin America -- 10: The Forbidden ‘F’? Do women still hold up half the sky in today’s China?- 11: Anti-gender campaigns and abortion: Feminist strategies against reactionary biopolitics in Chile -- 12: Strategies of Attack: How anti-gender politics devalues and depletes academic knowledge production -- 13: Gendered contestations in Spain: A call for conceptual diversity and embodied knowledges -- 14: Gender studies and anti-gender politics in the Gulf region -- 15: Roundtable with scholars and activist affected by anti-gender politics. .
Abstract:
In recent years, attacks on the rise of ‘gender ideology’ and ‘genderism’ as a political force, on gender studies as an academic field, and on feminist, queer and trans individuals seen to be their embodied representatives, have grown in scope and intensity. This edited volume understands such attacks as a global force in need of urgent analytical and political attention. Drawing on contributions from and about a varied range of geographical locations including Argentina, Chile, China, Germany, the Persian Gulf, Hungary, India, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Uganda, the UK and the US, this book explores how anti-gender mobilisations work as a transnational formation shaped by the legacies of colonialism, racial capitalism, and resurgent nationalisms and how these can be resisted. By transnationalising our inquiries into the epistemic, affective and political nature of the anti-gender phenomenon, this volume troubles the ‘origin stories’ we tell about where anti-gender politics come from, and helps to better locate the various sources, actors, and networks behind these attacks, contesting the notion that anti-gender politics derive solely from right-wing nationalist or conservative religious actors, to show how they also derive from more centrist, liberal, leftist and even presumably feminist positions. The book thus invites us to sharpen and rethink the conceptual vocabularies and strategies we use to understand and resist anti-gender attacks, opening up space for envisioning new political imaginaries and transnational feminist solidarities. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-54223-7
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