Defining the Phenomenon – What Is and What Is Not an Anti-Gender Movement?
Defining the Phenomenon – What Is and What Is Not an Anti-Gender Movement?

Author(s): Selma Alispahić
Subject(s): Politics, Gender Studies, Civil Society, Sociology, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Fondacija CURE
Keywords: BiH; gender; anti-gender; movement; definition;
Summary/Abstract: The authors of the book Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing Against Equality define anti-gender movements in the following way: ‘By using the notion of anti-gender movement, we aim to describe the mobilizations and campaigns against gender which have appeared since the late 1990s in several European countries and elsewhere (particularly in Latin America). We want to insist on a specific type of mobilization, and we claim that these mobilizations, which have often been studied separately, can be gathered under a single notion. These countries are facing specific forms of mobilization which should not be understood as mere reiterations of the past but rather as new forms of mobilization against gender and sexual equality... a common pattern of mobilization can be observed across borders, including a shared discourse, a travelling repertoire of action and similar strategies. Despite a diversity of triggers at national levels, all these mobilizations address “gender ideology” or “gender theory” as the root cause of the reforms they want to combat. For this reason, we gather them under the label of anti-gender movements.’ (Kuhar & Paternotte, 2017: 253)

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