This book examines the potential and challenges of current scholarship on understanding opposition to gender and equality in Europe. The book starts by theorizing the dynamics of opposition to gender equality policies in Europe. Part Two highlights oppositional actors (politicians, governments, citizens, policy makers, churches) and political arenas (parliament, courts, Internet), as well as different and opposing visions of gender and equality. Part Three concludes with a framework for understanding oppositional dynamics on gender equality change.
This book situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women's activism. Its chapters demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. The authors adress themes such as such as the rejection of 'hegemonic' feminism by marginalized feminist groups, transnational linkages among women's organizations, transnational flows of ideas and transnational migration.