Gender-Oriented Mobilizations and Social Movements

Abstract

All over the globe, we are witnessing increasing levels of mobilization that address sex, gender and sexuality from different angles. On the one hand, from Latin America to the US, Europe, Africa and Asia, women's, feminist and transfeminist, as well as LGBTQI movements are struggling offline as much as online to reclaim equal rights for all gender subjectivities, and to end all forms of gender-based violence, abuse and discrimination. On the other hand, conservative and reactionary groups are mobilizing worldwide and crossdimensionally in the name of the "natural family", to defend traditional and binary gender-related roles, opposing any attempt to deconstruct or question them as well as revamping anti-abotion and pro-life claims. Also, gender-related issues become, more or less instrumentally, part of political parties' programmes and strategies thus opening complex entwinments between grassroots mobilizations and institutional politics. This panel explores political participation and mobilization around the politics of sex, gender and sexuality. It collects papers that address the multifaceted nature of participation endeavors in this domain looking at dynamics that: i) cut across multiple spaces (the grassroots, political institutions and the space opened up by digital media); ii) are carried out in different modes (formal political alliances, social movements, online discussion networks); iii) are aimed at overcoming power unbalances amongst genders or, conversely, aspire at restoring a social and political order grounded in sexual dimorphism.

Title	Details
Together We Stand? A Theoretical Exploration of the Cooperative Ties Developed by LGBTIQ* Social Movement Organisations	View Paper Details
Travelling Theories: Intersectionality in The Italian Feminist Movement	View Paper Details
“Good” Opportunities, and “Safe” Spaces: Towards a Critical Approach to Intersectional Social Movements?	View Paper Details
Conservative Women's Mobilization and Gender Equality in Latin America	View Paper Details
Czech LGBT+ Movement (Post-1989): Between Massification and Invisibility, Success and Disregard	View Paper Details