In recent years, issues of gender and sexuality have become a political battlefield on which far-right, religious and conservative actors wage their war against liberal and left-wing ideas, as well as emancipatory movements. 'Anti-Gender' crusades, which had originally been launched by the Vatican, deeply impacted societies and politics especially as these discourses were adopted by the secular far-right. Campaigns against sexual and reproductive rights, against gender equality and sexual diversity were waged from Russia to the United States and from Latin America to Japan.
This new book brings together research and analyses from five continents in order to promote a global perspective on the thoroughly global phenomenon of the current culture wars around sex and gender. The contributions show how transnational networks spread discourses, which were developed in the Global North, and how they become re-articulated in different national, political and religious contexts.
About the Author: Judith Goetz holds degrees in comparative literature and political science and is currently pursuing a Ph.D position at the Center for Teacher's Education at the University of Vienna. She is also a member of FIPU (Research group ideologies and policies of inequality, www.fipu.at ) and the German Research Network 'women and right-wing extremism'. Her interests and research focuses on right-wing extremism and women* / gender and anti-feminism. She is co-editor of the anthologies Untergangster des Abendlandes. Ideology and reception of the right-wing extremists 'Identitarians'(2017), Right-wing extremism: Volume 3: Gender-reflective perspectives (2019), Right-wing extremism: Volume 4: Challenges for Journalism (2021) as well as Continuities of the stigmatization of 'Antisociality': Perspectives of critical civic education (2021). She published in English: Goetz, Judith/Klammer, Carina (2017): "Between German Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Racism - Representations of Gender in the Freedom Party of Austria" (FPÖ), Köttig, Michaela/Bitzan, Renate [Hrsg.innen] (2017) Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan).
Stefanie Mayer is a Researcher at Institute of Conflict Research (Institut für Konfliktforschung) in Vienna, Austria. She previously worked in research projects on a number of topics, including the history of migration discourses in Austria, intersectionality in feminist activism and feminist theory and right-wing populist (online) discourses. Her English-language publications include with Ajanovic, Edma and Sauer, Birgit (2020), Man, Woman, Family. Gender and the Limited Modernization of Right-Wing Extremism in Austria.
