Description:
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. 'Anti-Gender' crusades, which had originally been launched by the Vatican, deeply impacted societies and politics especially as these discourses were adopted by the secular far-right. Campaigns against sexual and reproductive rights, against gender equality and sexual diversity were waged from Russia to the United States and from Latin America to Japan.
This new book brings together research and analyses from five continents in order to promote a global perspective on the thoroughly global phenomenon of the current culture wars around sex and gender. The contributions show how transnational networks spread discourses, which were developed in the Global North, and how they become re-articulated in different national, political and religious contexts.
Brief description: 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).
Review Quotes: Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism is a timely and important book. It shows how anti-feminist actors are networking globally, and how their discourses and programs transcend nation-state borders, coalescing into a global front against feminism, equality and diversity. The essays convincingly explore how myriad members of the far right and religious fundamentalists have together created a global anti-feminist complex.-- "Birgit Sauer, University of VIenna"