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Anti-Gender Movement
A global movement against gender “ideology” and other forms of human existence that transgress traditional, normative views of gender and sex (such as drag queens and Gender Studies departments).
Fascism
A political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition (from Merriam-Webster dictionary)
Feminism
Gender
Definition.
Gender Ideology
A term taken on by the global right to indicate a societal threat by queer conceptions of the body (that gender is not innate and binary). This “ideology” is often seen as a “conspiracy” by the left to disrupt traditional values, such as the family unit.
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Marija Antič and Ivana Radačič, “The evolving understanding of gender in international law and‘gender ideology’ pushback 25 years since the Beijing conference on women”
Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender (MacMillian, 2024)
Pei Jean Chen (2023), “Queer feminist assemblages against far-right anti-‘Anti-Discrimination Law’ in South Korea,” Journal of Lesbian Studies
Elizabeth S Corredor, “Unpacking ‘Gender Ideology’ and the Global Right’s Antigender Countermovement”
Gabriela Córdoba Vivas (2023), “The ‘Free Speech’ Bus’: Making ‘gender ideology’ appear through media and performance, Journal of Lesbian Studies
Dian Dian (2023), “lala activists in dark times: queer feminist resistance to the cyber-nationalist attacks in China,” Journal of Lesbian Studies
Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang, “Is ‘Gender Ideology’ Western Colonialism?”
Libby, “TERF feminism and Christian Evangelical Christianity”
Barbara Sutton (2023), “Abortion rights in the crosshairs: a transnational perspective on resistance strategies”, Journal of Lesbian Studies
Anne Wilkinson, “Gender as death threat to the family: how the ‘security frame’ shapes anti-gender activism in Mexico”