Ov Cristian Norocel
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Anti-gender politics in Finland and Romania
Författare
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.
Avdelning/ar
- Genusvetenskapliga institutionen
- LU profilområde: Mänskliga rättigheter
Publiceringsår
2023-06-01
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Journal of Politics and Gender
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Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Bristol University Press
Ämne
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
- Gender Studies
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Nyckelord
- Anti-genderism
- politics
- Finland
- Romania
- LGBT rights
- referandum
- citizens' initiative
Aktiv
Epub
Projekt
- An ethnographic exploration of anti-genderism: ideas, identities and political practices in the Nordic region
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2515-1088