Anti-gender politics in Finland and Romania

Summary, in English

This study examines the articulation of anti-gender politics in the parliamentary debates centred on two citizens’ initiatives in Finland and Romania. Although different in their endeavours (in Finland, supporting equal marriage rights; in Romania, attempting to legislate pre-emptively against them), these citizens’ initiatives resulted in significant defeats for the wider anti-gender campaigns in these countries. Examining closely the parliamentary debates ensuing these proposals, we evidence how anti-gender politics developed in ways specific to each examined polity and served as a key vehicle for different manners of retrogressive mobilisation, which bypassed left–right ideological cleavages and party loyalty. We scrutinise critically the discursive scenarios that coalesce in anti-gender politics in the two countries, and we map out both the commonalities and differences between the antithetic narrative scenarios, which hinge on the position of the child within a heteronormative nuclear family and the depiction of marriage equality as a harbinger of an impending societal collapse.

• Författare: Ov Cristian Norocel; Katarina Pettersson
• Avdelning/ar: Genusvetenskap; LU profilområde: Mänskliga rättigheter
• Publiceringsår: 2025
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 189-206
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: European Journal of Politics and Gender
• Volym: 8
• Issue: 1
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/251510821X16832281009645
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Bristol University Press
• Ämne: Political Science (excluding Peace and Conflict Studies); Gender Studies; Other Social Sciences
• Nyckelord: Anti-genderism; politics; Finland; Romania; LGBT rights; referandum; citizens' initiative
• Aktiv: Published
• Projekt: An ethnographic exploration of anti-genderism: ideas, identities and political practices in the Nordic region
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 2515-1088