Elgar Companion to Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals

This timely Companion applies a feminist lens to the promises and challenges of Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Against the backdrop of escalating transnational anti-gender backlash and the rollback of gender and sexual rights across diverse contexts, this book is a key guide to the latest research on gendered relations of power and their implications for development outcomes.Contributors reflect on SDG 5 on gender equality and on questions of gender more broadly across the other SDGs, identifying pathways to recover and re-politicize Agenda 2030’s transformative potential. Chapters outline routes to reclaiming gender-just futures through and beyond the SDGs, adopting intersectional, queer, and decolonial frameworks. The Companion reasserts the centrality of feminist and queer movements in resisting anti-gender backlash and authoritarian ascendency, while offering a critical antidote/counter to the technocratic bluntness of frameworks like the SDGs.With an expansive geographic range of perspectives, particularly from the Global Majority, this Companion offers a comprehensive overview of the SDGs from an expressly feminist perspective and a vital roadmap for future research. This book is a crucial resource for scholars and students of sustainability, development studies and gender studies. Policymakers, practitioners and activists advancing and advocating for sexual and gender justice through national and transnational frameworks will equally benefit from the Companion’s relevant practical insights.