Blurring Boundaries – ‘Anti-Gender’ Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses

lt;b>Dorothee Beck is a research associate at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. Adriano José Habed is a lecturer in Gender and Postcolonial Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands.
Annette Henninger is a professor for Gender and Politics at the University of Marburg, Germany.

Introduction: Blurring Boundaries. Uncanny Collusions, Overlaps, and Convergences in the Discursive Field of ‘Gender’ (Adriano José Habed, Annette Henninger, Dorothee Beck)

I. Transphobia
Securitizing Trans Bodies, (Re)Producing Lesbian Purity: Exploring the Discursive Politics of ‘Gender Critical’ Activists in the UK and Germany (Christine M. Klapeer and Inga Nüthen)
Navigating Transphobia and Trans-Chauvinism: Effects of Right-Wing Policies on Trans People in the AfD (Judith Goetz)

II. Femonationalism and Ethnosexism
Femonationalism, Neoliberal Activation, and Anti-Feminism — The Shifting Discourses on Gender Equality and Women’s Issues in Austria (Edma Ajanovic)
Anti-Muslim Articulations: Ethnosexist Common Sense and Gay Politics in the Alternative for Germany (Patrick Wielowiejski)

III. Gender-Inclusive Language
The Crusade Against Gender-Inclusive Language in Germany — A Discursive Bridge Between the Far Right and the Civic Mainstream (Dorothee Beck)

IV. Mobilizing and Resisting
Framing the LGBTQ Equality Debate: Movement/Countermovement Interactions and Resistances to Gender and Sexual Equality in Ukraine (Maryna Shevtsova)
Anti-Feminist Mobilization and Popular Feminism in Turkey as Anti-Politics: Moralizing versus Psychologizing Social Wrongs (Funda Hülagü)

V. Rethinking Critical Tools
Understanding ‘Anti-Gender’ and TERF Movements Through the Lens of Populism (Gadea Méndez Grueso)
Where Does Anti-Feminist Outrage Come from and Whom Does it Address? Understanding Right-Wing Anti-Feminist Galvanizations Using Affect Theory and Authoritarianism Surveys (Christopher Fritzsche)
Conclusion: Blurring Boundaries as an Invitation to Self-Reflection. A Roundtable Discussion (Dorothee Beck, Adriano José Habed, Annette Henninger, Hanna Mühlenhoff, Koen Slootmaeckers)

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