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Analyses far-right and religious attacks on gender equality and sexual diversity on a global level In recent years issues of gender and sexuality have become a political battlefield, on which far-right, religious and conservative actors wage their war against liberal and left-wing ideas as well as emancipatory movements. This collection brings together views from five different continents to shed light on the anti-feminist politics and strategies shaping this ideology. Starting with an analytical understanding of current anti-feminist discourses, mobilisations and policies, which include anti-gender discourses, anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations and attacks on sexual and reproductive rights, this volume explores different actors and their embeddedness in national, regional and international networks. It argues that in order to analyse anti-feminism, one should not separate opposition to women's equality from opposition to trans- or LGBTIQ+ rights but rather analyse their interconnectedness. The book expands the scope of the discussion from an a priori focus on specific sets of actors such as 'the global right', 'populism' or 'fundamentalism' and promotes a global perspective on the culture wars around sex and gender. The contributions show how transnational networks spread discourses, which were developed in the Global North, and how such discourses become re-articulated in different national, political and religious contexts. Judith Goetz is Researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Stefanie Mayer is Researcher at the Institute of Conflict Research (IKF), Vienna, Austria.
About the author
Judith Goetz holds degrees in Comparative Literature and Political Science and is currently pursuing a Ph.D position in the Department for Education at the University of Innsbruck. She is also a member of FIPU (Research group ideologies and policies of inequality, www.fipu.at ) and the German Research Network 'women and right-wing extremism'. Her interests and research focuses on right-wing extremism and women* / gender and anti-feminism. Most recently, she co-edited the anthologies (in German)
Right-wing Extremism as a Challenge for Journalism (2021) and
Continuities of the Stigmatisation of 'Asociality' Perspectives of Socio-critical Political Education (2021). Stefanie Mayer is a Researcher at Institute of Conflict Research (Institut für Konfliktforschung) in Vienna, Austria. She previously worked in research projects on a number of topics, including the history of migration discourses in Austria, intersectionality in feminist activism and feminist theory and right-wing populist (online) discourses. Her English-language publications include with Ajanovic, Edma and Sauer, Birgit (2020),
Man, Woman, Family. Gender and the Limited Modernization of Right-Wing Extremism in Austria.
Summary
Ten chapters from five continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, Africa) provide a global perspective on current anti-feminism and anti-gender discourses
