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The "New Right" War on Gender and Intersectional Feminist Responses across the World
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC32 Women, Gender and Society (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Invited Session
This panel will bring together feminist scholars from Latin and North America, Africa, Asia and Europe to address the renewed centrality given to gender by right-wing political/ideological organizations/movements as well as the feminist responses that – across local and national boundaries - have highlighted the continuity of gender discrimination but equally valued the principles of non-discrimination based on race, ethnicity, generation, nationality, class or religion, among others, and the resulting increasingly intersectional and emancipatory feminism.
The panel will start by highlighting the Brazilian experience given this year’s ISA Forum location in Brazil, and the radical change in gender policies (including policies for women and LGBTQI + segments) that have taken place in Brazil and Latin America in the last decades - from the Pink Tide, in which the states in the region actively engaged in policy initiatives to address gender inequalities (new legislation, program creation, and varying public policy actions) to the arrivals of self-proclaimed New Right governments, that have been leading to serious conservative setbacks and threats on the agenda to promote gender equality.
The session will discuss convergences and distinctions in both the "New Right" as well as in the feminist responses in various global locations, and the resulting possibilities of renewed forms of transnational feminist solidarities and alliances. Last, the panel will consider the broader impact of intersectional feminist activism on progressive social movements and political action in opposition to the "New Right" worldwide.