The War on Gender and the Gender of War in Central and Eastern Europe
The War on Gender and the Gender of War in Central and Eastern Europe
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Focusing on Russia's assault on Ukraine as pivotal in politics and economics, this book examines the contentious interactions between gender equality activists and anti-gender movements. Through a comparative and international lens, this book examines how local anti-gender movements paint Western Europe as “gayropa” to increase and consolidate anti-gender support while nationalist politicians, conservative social movements, and government policies invoke the savior complex and deepen the sense of victimhood from past and contemporary colonization. Moving beyond political polarization, this book shows how gender equality movements responded to anti-genderism, how both benefited from transnational networks, and how each realigned internationally due to the ongoing war in Europe.
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Table of Contents
Katalin Fábián
Part 1: The Rationales and Rhetoric of Anti-Genderism
2. Russia's Politics of “Traditional Values” and The Invasion of Ukraine
Emil Edenborg
3. Where Do Those Billboards Come From? Fake News as a Weapon of Hybrid Gender War in Poland
Izabela Desperak
4. Creating a Hostile State in Slovakia: Anti-Gender Actors' Political Strategies and Impacts
Alexandria Wilson-McDonald
5. “A Special Linguistic Operation”: Making Gender Unconstitutional in Bulgaria
Emilia Slavova
6. (Anti-) Gender Tendencies in Baltic States' Politics (1990-2024)
Ausra Park
Part II: Contentious Policies of Anti-Gender Environments: Reproduction, Sex Education, Domestic Violence, and Language
7. “Traditional Values”: The Russian War on Ukraine and the Anti-Gender Agenda of the Women's Union of Russia
Yulia Gradskova
8. Polarized Parliamentary Debates on Sex Education in Romania: Between Necessity and Apocalypse (2012–2024)
Oana Baluta
9. Scholarly Gaslighting in the Serbian Anti-Gender Discourse
Svetlana Tomic
Part III: Social Movements and Informal Resistance against Anti-Genderism
10. The 1990s Roots of Women's 2020 Mobilization and The Anti-Gender Backlash That Followed: The Case of Belarus
Vera Beloshitzkaya
11. Gender, Reproduction, and Regulation: Russia's War in Ukraine and Poland's “War” on Gender
Olena Morozova and Ania Switzer
12. Czech Women's Solidarity as the "Power of the Powerless": Countering Anti-Genderism in the Context of the War on Ukraine
Simona Fojtová and Hana Waisserova
13. Queering Veganism: Gastronativism as a Frontier of Anti-Genderism in Georgia
Ariel Otruba
14. Queering the Narrative: Challenges and Possibilities for LGBTQ+ activism in Armenia's Anti Gender Environment
Amelia Wilson
15. Contesting the “Good Change”: Anti-Gender Backlash and Equality Policies in Poland
Agnieszka Balcerzak
Product details
| Published | 07 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9798216264941 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 b/w photos |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
