Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment av Agnieszka Graff, Elzbieta Korolczuk

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<P>This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender campaigns, which emerged around 2010 in Europe, are not a simple continuation of the anti-feminist backlash dating back to the 1970s, but part of a new political configuration. Opposition to "gender" has become a key element of the rise of right-wing populism, which successfully harnesses the anxiety, shame and anger caused by neoliberalism and threatens to destroy liberal democracy. </P><I><P>Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment</I> offers a novel conceptualization of the relationship between the ultraconservative anti-gender movement and right-wing populist parties, examining the <I>opportunistic synergy</I> between these actors. The authors map the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement, putting the Polish case in a comparative perspective. They show