The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction

References

• Ayoub, P., and K. Stoeckl. 2023. Global Resistances to LGBTI Rights: Actors, Claims, and Venues of Contestation. New York: NYU Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bijelić, N. 2008. “Sex Education in Croatia: Tensions between Secular and Religious Discourses.” European Journal of Women’s Studies 15 (4): 329–343. doi:10.1177/1350506808095273.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bogaards, M., and A. Pető. 2022. “Editorial. Gendering De-Democratization: Gender and Illiberalism in Post-communist Europe.” Politics and Governance 10 (4): 1–5. doi:10.17645/pag.v10i4.6245.
   Google Scholar
• Brown, W. 2019. In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West. New York: Columbia University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Brusis, M. 2016. “Democracies Adrift: How the European Crises Affect East-Central Europe.” Problems of Post-Communism 63 (5–6): 263–276. doi:10.1080/10758216.2016.1201772.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bustikova, L., and P. Guasti. 2017. “The Illiberal Turn or Swerve in Central Europe?” Politics and Governance 5 (4): 1–5. doi:10.17645/pag.v5i4.1156.
   Google Scholar
• Cabezas, F. M., and C. S. Vega, eds. 2022. La reacción patriarcal: Neoliberalismo autoritario, politización religiosa y nuevas derechas [The Patriarchal Reaction: Authoritarian Neoliberalism, Religious Politicization and New Rights]. Barcelona: Bellaterra.
   Google Scholar
• Cinpoeş, R., O. C. Norocel. 2020. “Nostalgic Nationalism, Welfare Chauvinism, and Migration Anxieties in Central and Eastern Europe.” In Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe, edited by O. C. Norocel, A. Hellström, and M. J. Jørgensen, 51–65. Cham: Springer.
   Google Scholar
• Cooper, M. 2017. Family Values. Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism. Oxford: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Darakchi, S. 2019. “‘The Western Feminists Want to Make Us Gay’: Nationalism, Heteronormativity, and Violence against Women in Bulgaria in Times of ‘Anti-Gender Campaigns’” Sexuality & Culture 23: 1208–1229. doi:10.1007/s12119-019-09611-9.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Datta, N. 2020. Modern-Day Crusaders in Europe: Tradition, Family, Property: Analysis of a Transnational, Ultra-Conservative, Catholic-Inspired Influence Network. Brussels: European Parliamentary Forum on Population & Development.
   Google Scholar
• Datta, N., and D. Paternotte. 2023. “‘Gender Ideology’ Battles in the European Bubble.” In The Christian Right in Europe: Movements, Networks and Denominations, edited by G. L. Mascolo, 37–56. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
   Google Scholar
• Dawson, J., and S. Hanley. 2016. “What’s Wrong with East-Central Europe?: The Fading Mirage of the ‘Liberal Consensus’” Journal of Democracy 27 (1): 20–34. doi:10.1353/jod.2016.0015.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dietze, G., and J. Roth, eds. 2020. Right-Wing Populism and Gender: European Perspectives and Beyond. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
   Google Scholar
• Dragolea, A. 2022. “Illiberal Discourse in Romania: A ‘Golden” New Beginning?” Politics and Governance 10 (4): 84–94. doi:10.17645/pag.v10i4.5515.
   Google Scholar
• Edenborg, E. 2021. “Anti-Gender Politics as Discourse Coalitions: Russia’s Domestic and International Promotion of ‘Traditional Values’” Problems of Post-Communism 1–10. doi:10.1080/10758216.2021.1987269.
   Google Scholar
• Edenborg, E. 2022. “‘Rysslands konservativa vändning och den globala anti-genusrörelsen’” [Russia’s Conservative Turn and the Global Anti-gender Movement]. Nordisk Østforum 36: 26–45. doi:10.23865/noros.v36.3357.
   Google Scholar
• Edenborg, E. 2018. “Homophobia as Geopolitics: ‘Traditional Values’ and the Negotiation of Russia’s Place in the World.” In Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality, edited by J. Mulholland, N. Montagna, and E. Sanders-McDonagh, 67–87. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Fodor, E. 2022. The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot.
   Google Scholar
• Geva, D. 2021. “Orbán’s Ordonationalism as Post-neoliberal Hegemony.” Theory, Culture & Society 38 (6): 71–98. doi:10.1177/0263276421999435.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Graff, A. 2014. “Report from the Gender Trenches: War against ‘Genderism’ in Poland.” European Journal of Women’s Studies 21 (4): 431–442. doi:10.1177/1350506814546091.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Graff, A., R. Kapur, and S. D. Walters. 2019. “Introduction: Gender and the Rise of the Global Right.” Signs 44 (3): 541–560. doi:10.1086/701152.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Graff, A., and E. Korolczuk. 2022. Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment. Abigdon: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Grzebalska, W., E. Kováts, and A. Pető. 2017. “Gender as Symbolic Glue: How ‘Gender’ Became an Umbrella Term for the Rejection of the (Neo)liberal Order.” Political Critique. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03232926
   Google Scholar
• Grzebalska, W., and A. Pető. 2018. “The Gendered Modus Operandi of the Illiberal Transformation in Hungary and Poland.” Women’s Studies International Forum 68: 164–172. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2017.12.001.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Grzymała-Busse, A. M. 2015. Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Guasti, P., and L. Bustikova. 2023. “Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe.” Problems of Post-Communism 1–13. doi:10.1080/10758216.2022.2156889.
   Google Scholar
• Hark, S., and P.-I. Villa, eds. 2015. Anti-Genderismus Sexualität und Geschlecht als Schauplätze aktueller politischer Auseinandersetzungen [Anti-genderism: Sexuality and Gender as Arenas of Current Political Debates]. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
   Google Scholar
• Hennig, A. 2018. “Political Genderphobia in Europe: Accounting for Right-Wing Political-Religious Alliance Against Gender-Sensitive Education Reform since 2012.” Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik 2: 193–219. doi:10.1007/s41682-018-0026-x.
   Google Scholar
• Hodžić, A., J. Budesa, A. Štulhofer, and J. Irvine. 2012. “The Politics of Youth Sexuality: Civil Society and School-based Sex Education in Croatia.” Sexualities 15 (3–4): 494–514. doi:10.1177/1363460712439656.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jenne, E., and C. Mudde. 2012. “Hungary’s Illiberal Turn: Can Outsiders Help?” Journal of Democracy 23 (3): 147–155. doi:10.1353/jod.2012.0057.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Köttig, M., R. Bitzan, and A. Pető, eds. 2017. Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Kováts, E. 2021. “Anti-gender Politics in East-Central Europe: Right-wing Defiance to West-Eurocentrism.” Gender - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft 1: 76–90. doi:10.3224/gender.v13i1.06.
   Google Scholar
• Kováts, E., and M. Põim, eds. 2015. Gender as a Symbolic Glue: The Position and Role of the Conservative and Far Right Parties in the Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Europe. Brussels/Budapest: Foundation for European Progressive Studies/Friedrich Ebert–Stiftung.
   Google Scholar
• Krizsán, A., and C. Roggeband. 2021. Politicizing Gender and Democracy in the Context of the Istanbul Convention. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Krizsán, A., and C. Roggeband. 2019. “Introduction: Mapping the Gendered Implications of Democratic Backsliding in the Countries of the CEE Region.” In Gendering Democratic Backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe: A Comparative Agenda, edited by A. Krizsán and C. Roggeband, 4–30. Budapest: Central European University.
   Google Scholar
• Kuhar, R. 2014. “Playing with Science: Sexual Citizenship and the Roman Catholic Church counter-narratives in Slovenia and Croatia.” Women’s Studies International Forum 49: 84–92. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2014.07.005.
   Google Scholar
• Kuhar, R., and D. Paternotte, eds. 2017. Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe. Mobilizations against Equality. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
   Google Scholar
• Kulpa, R. 2014. “Western Leveraged Pedagogy of Central and Eastern Europe: Discourses of Homophobia, Tolerance, and Nationhood.” Gender, Place & Culture 21 (4): 431–448. doi:10.1080/0966369X.2013.793656.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lendvai-Bainton, N., and D. Szelewa. 2021. “Governing New Authoritarianism: Populism, Nationalism and Radical Welfare Reforms in Hungary and Poland.” Social Policy & Administration 55 (4): 559–572. doi:10.1111/spol.12642.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lombardo, E., J. Kantola, and R. Rubio-Marin. 2021. “Special Issue: De-democratization and Opposition to Gender Equality Politics in Europe.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 28 (3): 521–531. doi:10.1093/sp/jxab030.
   Google Scholar
• Mad’arová, Z., and P. Hardoš. 2022. “In the Name of the Conservative People: Slovakia’s Gendered Illiberal Transformation.” Politics and Governance 10 (4): 95–107. doi:10.17645/pag.v10i4.5538.
   Google Scholar
• Maiguashca, B. 2019. “Resisting the ‘Populist Hype’: A Feminist Critique of A Globalising Concept.” Review of International Studies 45 (5): 768–785. doi:10.1017/S0260210519000299.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mos, M. 2022. “Routing or Rerouting Europe? The Civilizational Mission of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe.” Problems of Post-Communism 1–10. doi:10.1080/10758216.2022.2050927.
   Google Scholar
• Möser, C., J. Ramme, and J. Takacs. 2022. Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Norocel, O. C. 2013. Our People—A Tight-Knit Family under the Same Protective Roof: A Critical Study of Gendered Conceptual Metaphors at Work in Radical Right Populism. Helsinki: Unigrafia.
   Google Scholar
• Norocel, O. C., and I. Băluță. 2021. “Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 ‘Referendum for Family’ in Romania.” Problems of Post-Communism 1–10. doi:10.1080/10758216.2021.1987270.
   Google Scholar
• Norocel, O. C., and A. Giorgi. 2022. “Disentangling Radical Right Populism, Gender, and Religion: An Introduction.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 29 (4): 417–428. doi:10.1080/1070289X.2022.2079307.
   Google Scholar
• Norocel, O. C., and G. Szabó. 2019. “Special Issue: Mapping the Discursive Opportunities for Radical-Right Populist Politics across Eastern Europe.” Problems of Post-Communism 66 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1080/10758216.2019.1537040.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Paternotte, D., and R. Kuhar. 2018. “Disentangling and Locating the ‘Global Right’: Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe.” Politics and Governance 6 (3): 6–19. doi:10.17645/pag.v6i3.1557.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Paternotte, D., and M. Verloo. 2021. “De-democratization and the Politics of Knowledge: Unpacking the Cultural Marxism Narrative.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 28 (3): 556–578. doi:10.1093/sp/jxab025.
   Google Scholar
• Pető, A. 2020. “Academic Freedom and Gender Studies: An Alliance Forged in Fire.” Gender and Sexuality 15: 9–24.
   Google Scholar
• Pető, A. 2021. “Gender and Illiberalism.” In Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism, edited by A. Sajó, R. Uitz, and S. Holmes, 313–325. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Pirro, A. L. P., and B. Stanley. 2022. “Forging, Bending, and Breaking: Enacting the ‘Illiberal Playbook’ in Hungary and Poland.” Perspectives on Politics 20 (1): 86–101. doi:10.1017/S1537592721001924.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rawłuszko, M. 2021. “And if the Opponents of Gender Ideology are Right? Gender Politics, Europeanization, and the Democratic Deficit.” Politics & Gender 17 (2): 301–323. doi:10.1017/S1743923X19000576.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shevtsova, M. 2020. “Fighting ‘Gayropa’: Europeanization and Instrumentalization of LGBTI Rights in Ukrainian Public Debate.” Problems of Post-Communism 67 (6): 500–510. doi:10.1080/10758216.2020.1716807.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shevtsova, M. 2021. LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey: Exporting European Values? New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Shevtsova, M. 2022. “Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine.” Problems of Post-Communism 1–12. doi:10.1080/10758216.2022.2085581.
   Google Scholar
• Slavova, E. 2022. “Globalising Genderphobia and the Case of Bulgaria.” European Journal of English Studies 26 (2): 176–196. doi:10.1080/13825577.2022.2091281.
   Google Scholar
• Stan, L., and L. Turcescu. 2011. Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Stoeckl, K. 2020. “The Rise of the Russian Christian Right: The Case of the World Congress of Families.” Religion, State & Society 48 (4): 223–238. doi:10.1080/09637494.2020.1796172.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tranfić, I. 2022. “Framing ‘Gender Ideology’: Religious Populism in the Croatian Catholic Church.” Identities 29 (4): 466–482. doi:10.1080/1070289X.2022.2037899.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Valkovičová, V., and P. Meier. 2022. “‘Everyone Has the Right to Their Opinion’: ‘Gender Ideology’ Rhetoric and Epistemic Struggles in Slovak Policymaking.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 29 (3): 1080–1099. doi:10.1093/sp/jxab008.
   Google Scholar
• Verloo, M., ed. 2018. Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Verloo, M., and D. Paternotte. 2018. “The Feminist Project under Threat in Europe.” Politics and Governance 6 (3): 1–5. doi:10.17645/pag.v6i3.1736.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vida, B. 2019. “New Waves of Anti-sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Strategies in the European Union: The Anti-gender Discourse in Hungary.” Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 27 (2): 13–16. doi:10.1080/26410397.2019.1610281.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vida, B., ed. 2022. The Gendered Politics of Crises and De-Democratization: Opposition to Gender Equality. Colchester: ECPR Press.
   Google Scholar