The West is (not) the Best”: Anti-Gender Narratives and Queer-feminist Struggles in Greece
- Journal Paper
Author
Date
2025
Keywords
Queer and Feminist Studies
ISBN/ISSN/ISMN, DOI
- ISBN/ISSN/ISMN:
- ISSN 2524-2733
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.52323/098786
Text
“The West Is (Not) the Best” – Anti-Gender Narratives and Queer-Feminist Struggles in Greece Abstract The anti-gender narratives and policies that attack women's and LGBTQ+ rights (gender, sexual and reproductive freedoms) come largely from right-wing parties, conservative think tanks, far-right political organizations and alt-right networks, authoritarian governments, and representatives of the Catholic and the Orthodox Church. The paper highlights current anti-gender politics, including reactionary discourses, strategies, and multiple (institutional) actors that seek to undermine societal and legal progress for intersectional feminism and the LGBTQ+ movement. In this vein, it draws attention to the anti-gender arguments and the imports of the white (male) supremacy ideology in the Greek context. More thoroughly, the paper outlines, on the one hand, the anti-gender movement and the ways in which nature, nation, and normality construct its main narrative as it sheds light on the alt-right discourse, ethnopatriarchy, and the heteronormative standards within Greek society. On the other, the paper traces local queer-feminist struggles and activist practices that seek to resist the continuum of gender-based violence, homophobic/transphobic violence, systemic racism, and discrimination. Queer-feminist struggles gained strength and new perspectives in the aftermath of Zak Kostopoulos/Zackie Oh’s murder and the eruption of the #metoo movement, whereas new collective struggles for defending women's and LGBTQ+ rights take place against rising fascisms and the neoliberal control of reproduction. Keywords: anti-gender narratives, gender-based violence, queer-feminist struggles, vulnerability, dissident voices Feminist Critique, Issue 6/2025 Guest editors: Anna Carastathis, Ramona Dima, Simona Dumitriu, and Myrto Tsilimpounidi. The edition is part of "Queer and Feminist Studies in Southeastern Europe II" international conference April 2023, FAC Athens. https://queerfemsee.wordpress.com/
Volume/Issue, Pages
6/2025
Language, Format, Material, Edition
English
Activity List
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- Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies . Feminist Critique. 2025 -
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- Anna Carastathis, Ramona Dima, Simona Dumitriu, and Myrto Tsilimpounidi.
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