This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual
democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against" gender ideology" and feminist efforts …

Borrowing from Marx, we start our introductory remarks with the first words of the Communist
Manifesto,'A specter is haunting Europe': the specter of right-wing populism. This specter …

Around the world, LGBTQ+ activists have won an unprecedented series of political victories,
from marriage equality to increased representation in government. But this success has …

Contemporary left-wing feminist and queer politics finds itself in a double-bind between on
the one hand neoliberal and corporate embracement of gender equality and sexual …

This article explores transnational anti-gender networking promoting “the natural family.” We
focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized …

Over the past decade, Slovakia has witnessed the dismantling of public human rights
institutions and gender equality policies and incessant efforts to limit sexual and …

This chapter examines anti-gender campaigns in Norway, a country often considered a
haven for gender equality and LGBTQI+ rights. Recent years have seen global mobilizations …

This article draws on Mouffe's theory of agonistic democracy and critique of hegemonic
consensuses to examine whether and how homonationalism can come to fuel antagonisms …

The Vatican-inspired transnational right-wing mobilization against “gender ideology” is a
transnational conservative countermovement against gender equality and LGBTQ rights that …

LGBTQ communities and movements across Europe are under attack from various
conservative and right-wing extremist groups. What are the political implications of such …