Multiple Faces of Politics against Gender

Opposition to gender & equality is growing in European democracies. When opposition to gender and gender & equality is strongly articulated or violent, it is very visible, and there is already a large scholarship on this phenomena. Yet, to fully grasp the threat to gender & equality, we need also to investigate and conceptualise its less visible and indirect forms, and we need to scrutinize the different intersectional forms this opposition takes. The Paper will offer some ideas on how this can be done, highlighting not only the importance of including the full political process but also the full range of varieties of democracy and autocracy.