Rights, Laws, and Gender

Abstract

Politics is intrinsically intertwined with law, especially when it comes to sexual and reproductive rights, legal gender equality, and gender-based violence. Under the recent upsurge of radical-right governments and anti-gender movements, these rights are increasingly under attack. The papers in this panel investigate how political dynamics shape the understanding and contestation of exisiting rights, and how they can stall progress towards legal and political equality. The papers cover a wide range of cases in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas and use experimental, observational, and qualitative methods. They provide insight into how patrirchal values, legal campaigns, and policy-making are instrumentalized by actors on the political right to undermine protection from gender-based violence, gender equity policy reforms, and sexual and reproductive rights.

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Gender Equity Antipreneurship: Resistance to Gender Equitable Policy Reforms in Post-Democratic Transition Indonesia	View Paper Details
Toward Understanding the Condonation of Gender Based Violence: The Interaction between patriarchal values and contextual elements	View Paper Details
Political Dynamics and Reproductive Rights: A Time Series Analysis	View Paper Details
In the Shadows of Denial: Navigating the Politics of Ignorance in Czechia's Approach to Gender-Based Violence	View Paper Details
When does anti-gender mobilization impact transgender rights? Global patterns of rights recognition and anti-transgender persecution	View Paper Details