Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

This book aims to make sense of political developments towards more gender conservative populist movements from a feminist perspective, analyzing both ultraconservative campaigns against gender, which started around 2010, and the mass feminist mobilizations responding to them since 2016. The authors chart not just a continuation of the anti-feminist backlash dating back to the late 1970s, but the rise of a new movement, which benefits from the crisis of neoliberalism and threatens to destroy liberal democracy. This study offers a novel conceptualization of the relationship between the ultraconservative anti-gender movement and right-wing populist parties.

It also examines the recent wave of feminist mass mobilizations, viewing the transnational revolt of women as a left populist movement. The authors map the Anti-Gender campaigns as a global movement, put Poland's Anti-Gender Campaigns in a comparative perspective, look at The Family as a refuge from Neoliberalism, and examine the move towards a 'Populist Feminism'. This is an important study for those researching in Politics, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies and Sociology