Section outline

    • TOPIC 10 - Overview                                                                                                         

      Lecture: 12 April (week 12)



      "Basta" (Enough!) reads this banner. Photo taken from the protests that took place in Italy last November following the murder of 22-year-old student Giulia Cecchettin. A report, published in 2021 by the European Institute for Gender Equality and based on 2018 data, placed Italy ninth out of 15 EU countries for the number of murders of women by partners or former partners and 10th for femicides committed by relatives.


      In this final lecture we apply a gender lens to current events shaping our world: the rise of illiberal politics, the backlash against a range of sexual and reproductive rights in Europe and the US and the urgent question of climate change. More importantly, we consider how bodies can resist and the politics of presence to inform present and future struggles.

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    • Avortement, les croisés contre-attaquent 1/2 URL

      This ARTE documentary from 2018 (unfortunately only available in French) explores the rise of the anti-abortion movement in Europe. Highly recommended.

      You can find the link to the second part of the documentary on the DailyMotion page.

    • Climate, Politics and Procreation / LRB podcast in four parts URL
       A four-part series exploring the intersection of climate chaos and reproductive justice, Meehan Crist talks to activist and feminist scholar Loretta J. Ross, evolutionary biologist and feminist science scholar Banu Subramaniam, historian Alison Bashford and feminist scholar Jade Sasser. Can't recommend it enough! Transcripts are also available.

    • TOPIC 10 - Supplementary Reading 

      Niels Spierings, Andrej Zaslove, Liza M. Mügge & Sarah L. de Lange (2015) Gender and populist radical-right politics: an introduction, Patterns of Prejudice, 49(1-2), pp. 3-15.

      Francesca Romana Ammaturo (2015) The ‘Pink Agenda’: Questioning and Challenging European Homonationalist Sexual Citizenship. Sociology, 49(6), pp. 1151-1166.

      Sophie Harman (2016) Ebola, gender and conspicuously invisible women in global health governance. Third World Quarterly 37(3), pp. 524-541.

      Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte (Eds.) (2017) Anti-gender campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against equality. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 

      Sara R. Farris (2017) “Femonationalism Is No Populism,” in In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism. Durham and London, Duke University Press, pp. 57-77. 

      David Paternotte and Roman Kuhar (2018) Disentangling and Locating the “Global Right”: Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe. Politics and Governance 6(3), pp. 6-19. 

      Jennifer M. Piscopo and Denise M. Walsh (2020) Introduction: backlash and the future of feminism. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45(2), pp. 265-78. 

      Awino Okech, David Mwambari & Funmi Olonisakin (2020) COVID-19 responses and human rights in selected African countries. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 26(3), pp. 549–555.

      Brittany Leach (2020) Whose Backlash, against Whom? Feminism and the American Pro-Life Movement's "Mother-Child Strategy. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 45(2), pp. 319-328. 

      Elena Caruso (2020) The Ambivalence of Law: some observations on the denial of access to abortion services in Italy. Feminist Review 124, pp. 183-191. 

      Sara Stevano, Alessandra Mezzadri, Lorena Lombardozzi and Hannah Bargawi (2021) Hidden Abodes in Plain Sight: the Social Reproduction of Households and Labor in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Feminist Economics 27(1-2), pp. 271-287.

      Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk (2021) Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment. London and New York: Routledge.