• Blurring Boundaries – ‘Anti-Gender’ Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses
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Blurring Boundaries – ‘Anti-Gender’ Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses

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This book offers an analysis of the blurring boundaries between political positions known as ‘anti-gender’ and feminist and LGBTIQ+ strands.
  • 13 November 2023
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‘Gender’ is a catch-all term: it is used in discourses on women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights, gender equality, sexual education, gender studies – and by the anti-gender movements. The book offers an analysis of the blurring boundaries between political positions known as ‘anti-gender’ on the one hand and feminist and LGBTIQ+ strands on the other, starting from the hypothesis that there are discursive bridges between both camps which go beyond the exploitation of emancipatory attitudes. Rather, there are linkages which originate in mainstream feminist and LGBTIQ+ positions. The volume sheds light on these linkages in order to make the case for the need for alliances and dialogues to more effectively counter crusades on women’s and LGBTIQ+ constituencies.
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Price: $70.00
Pages: 233
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Imprint: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Publication Date: 13 November 2023
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783847426844
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
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Blurring Boundaries is a collection of great import for scholars and activists alike. In the continuing struggle against misogyny, transphobia and anti-LGBTQIA+ ideologies, we would do well to draw on the vigilance and care which these essays exemplify. To do so is to reaffirm a shared commitment to political liberation in these most urgent of times.
Dorothee Beck is a research associate at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. Adriano José Habed is an assistant professor in Gender and Postcolonial Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Annette Henninger is a professor for Gender and Politics at the University of Marburg, Germany.

1. Introduction (Dorothee Beck, Adriano José Habed, Annette Henninger)

I. The Family'
2. Carlotta Cossutta: Motherhood as an anti-feminist tool in Italy
3. Funda Huelague: The Feminist Struggle against the Rise of State Anti-Feminism in Turkey: Are the Dynamics of Neoliberal Co-optation Overcome?
4. Susanne Maurer: The 'protection of the innocent child' – or: How a powerful notion 'resonates'

II. Femonationalism and Ethno-Sexism
5. Edma Ajanovic: Privileged women and femonationalism - shifting gender discourses in Austria
6. Patrick Wielowiejeski: Anti-Muslim Articulations: Ethnosexist Common Sense and Gay Politics in the “Alternative for Germany”

III. Transphobia
7. Judith Goetz: Between Transchauvinism and transphobia
8. Inga Nüthen & Christine Klapeer: Rewriting “lesbian feminism” as a cis-white single-issue-project: Exploring the sexual politics of “gender critical” activists in the UK and Germany

IV. Language
9. Dorothee Beck: Ideology and nonsense? Gender as a threat to ‘pure language’
10. Sarah Garbagnoli: Vatican and Sexual Difference Feminism: History of a Pre-established Harmony

V. Mobilizing and Resisting
11. Maryna Schevtsova: Framing LGBT+ equality debate: movement/countermovement interactions and resistances to gender and sexual equality in Ukraine
12. Bianca Correa: The Anti-gender Movement and the Rise of the Political Right in Brazil

VI. Rethinking Critical tools
13. Adriano José Habed: Queer critique in “anti-gender” times
14. Christopher Fritzsche: "One is allowed to say that!” Antifeminism as Authoritarian Attitude and Political Cipher

VII. Concluding Part
15. Afterword: David Paternotte