Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism

Judith Goetz holds degrees in Comparative Literature and Political Science and is currently pursuing a Ph.D position in the Department for Education at the University of Innsbruck. She is also a member of FIPU (Research group ideologies and policies of inequality, www.fipu.at ) and the German Research Network ’women and right-wing extremism’. Her interests and research focuses on right-wing extremism and women* / gender and anti-feminism. Most recently, she co-edited the anthologies (in German) Right-wing Extremism as a Challenge for Journalism (2021) and Continuities of the Stigmatisation of ‘Asociality’: Perspectives of Socio-critical Political Education (2021). Stefanie Mayer is a Researcher at Institute of Conflict Research (Institut für Konfliktforschung) in Vienna, Austria. She previously worked in research projects on a number of topics, including the history of migration discourses in Austria, intersectionality in feminist activism and feminist theory and right-wing populist (online) discourses. Her English-language publications include with Ajanovic, Edma and Sauer, Birgit (2020), Man, Woman, Family. Gender and the Limited Modernization of Right-Wing Extremism in Austria.

Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism　is a timely and important book. It shows how anti-feminist actors are networking globally, and how their discourses and programs transcend nation-state borders, coalescing into a global front against feminism, equality and diversity. The essays convincingly explore how myriad members of the far right and religious fundamentalists have together created a global anti-feminist complex.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism - Stefanie Mayer and Judith GoetzPart I: Global Patterns of Contemporary Anti-Feminism 1. The XXI Century Crusade against Democracy in Latin America: ‘Gender Ideology’ at the Frontline - Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez2. ‘Comprehensive Sexuality Education is Satanic’: Homosexuality, Politics, and Christian Nationalism in Ghana - Regina Fuller3. The Backlash against Feminist Body Positive Activism in Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: a Transnational post-Soviet Trend? - Katharina Wiedlack and Iain Zabolotny4. A European Agenda? The Supra-National Dimension of Anti-Feminism in Europe - Stefanie Mayer and Judith Goetz5. Weak Men and the Feminisation of Society: Locating the Ideological Glue between the Manosphere and Far-Right - Simon CoplandPart II: Introduction: Local Articulations of Global Anti-Feminism6. ‘Original Design’ and the Renewal of Patriarchy. Discipleship and Religious Politicisation in an Evangelical Church in Quito (Ecuador) - Cristina Vega7. The Anti-feminist Narrative of the Hindu Right in India - Hira Naaz8. Queers and National Anxiety: Discourses on Gender and Sexuality from Anti-Gender Backlash Movements in Japan since the 2000s - Kazuyoshi Kawasaka 9. Anti-Feminism in the Context of Corona Conspiracy Theories in Germany - Mareike Fenja Bauer 10. South African Anti-feminism: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Opposition to South African Feminist Activism - Amber BeesonConcluding Remarks: Global Articulations of Anti-Feminism - Judith Goetz and Stefanie MayerAbstracts