Book Launch : Transnational Anti-Gender Politics, Feminist Solidarity in Times of Global Attacks

Join the editors of the book, including CEG member Tomás Ojeda, to the launch event of this timely book "Transnational Anti-Gender Politics: Feminist Solidarity in Times of Global Attacks".

In recent years, attacks on the rise of ‘gender ideology’, on gender studies as an academic field, and on feminist, queer and trans* people, have grown in scope and intensity. The editors of this volume understand such attacks as a global, transnational force in need of urgent analytical and political attention.

Drawing on contributions from varied range of geographical locations, the book explores how anti-gender mobilisations work as a transnational formation shaped by the legacies of colonialism, racial capitalism, resurgent nationalisms, and emergent neofascist sentiments, and how these can be resisted. The contributors trouble the ‘origin stories’ we tell about anti-gender politics, and help to better locate the various sources, actors, and networks behind these attacks. The chapters contest the notion that anti-gender politics derive solely from right-wing nationalist or conservative religious actors, to show how they also derive from more centrist, liberal, leftist and even presumably feminist positions.

In doing so, the book decentres the geographic, cultural, temporal and religious foci that have shaped interrogations of anti-gender politics so far. It thus invites us to sharpen and rethink the conceptual vocabularies and strategies we use to understand and resist anti-gender attacks, opening space for envisioning new political imaginaries and transnational feminist solidarities. 

Speakers:

- Billy Holzberg - King's College London

- Kalpana Wilson - Birkbeck, University of London

- Xine Yao - University College London

- Andrea Cornwall - King's College London

Chair:

- Sadie Wearing - London School of Economics and Political Science

Get your tickets for the online streaming of the event here

The Introduction to the book in open access. Here is the link in case you want to read it and take a look at the different chapters included in the volume.