The Advances of the Extreme Right on Democracy: Why Are Gender Setbacks and Attacks on Feminism so Central?

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: FSE002 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC32 Women, Gender and Society (host committee)

Language: English

This session aims to discuss, from the perspective of transnational feminisms, the current attacks by far-right leaders around the world on feminist and gender agendas and the feminist responses to it. The session also aims to put into perspective the main political and social strategies of action, the repertoires of action and their relationships (or not) with the growth of religious fundamentalism across the globe.
Session Organizer:
Marlise MATOS ALMEIDA, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Oral Presentations
Gender Issues on the Battlefield
Analia TORRES, CIEG/ISCSP University of Lisbon VAT#600019152, Portugal
The Hydras of Contemporary Anti-Gender and Ultra-Rights Politics
Sonia CORRÊA, ABIA / Sexuality Policy Watch - SPW, Brazil
Women and the Future of Democracy: Anti-Gender Politics and Women’s Electoral Responses in Brazil and the US.
Bertha MAKAROUN, Pólis Pesquisa, Brazil; Solange SIMOES, Eastern Michigan University, USA
Ideological Polarization on Gender Roles in Europe.
Edurne BARTOLOME PERAL, University of Deusto, Spain; Bogdan VOICU, Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy of Science, Romania
The Body in Representation and What That Means for Promoting an Inclusive Democracy
Petra MEIER, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Distributed Papers
Femininity and Possible Democracy in the Middle East
Esmaeil KHALILI, Iran
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