Anti-Gender Campaigns In Europe
''Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing Against Equality'' is a book about the anti-gender movement in Europe. It is edited by Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte, who are a sociology professor and associate professor respectively. It was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2017. According to ''Social Movement Studies'', "each chapter is written by different author(s), with different national and academic backgrounds". Individual chapters focus on a specific country, describing the background context and applications of the anti-gender movement in each. Summary ''Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe'' examines the anti-gender movement as it exists in twelve European countries as "case studies": Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, and Spain. The book focuses on the movement's development beginning in the period of the mid-1990s. A number of social issues that the movement concerns itself with in its opposition to " gen ...
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Anti-gender Movement
The anti-gender movement is an international movement which opposes what it refers to as "gender ideology", " gender theory" or "genderism". The concepts cover a variety of issues and have no coherent definition. Members of the anti-gender movement include right-wingers and the far right, right-wing populists, conservatives, and Christian fundamentalists. Members of the anti-gender movement oppose some LGBT rights, some reproductive rights, government gender policies, gender equality, gender mainstreaming and gender studies departments. Anti-gender rhetoric has seen increasing circulation in trans-exclusionary radical feminist discourse since 2016. The term ''gender ideology'' has been described by the academics Stefanie Mayer and Birgit Sauer as an " empty signifier" and by Agnieszka Graff as a "catch-all term for all that conservative Catholics despise". The idea of gender ideology has been described by scholars as a moral panic or conspiracy theory, as it alleges that ther ...
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