2024/12/01 by Emanuela Lombardo · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Civil society #Conceptualization #Democracy #Democratization #Gender Politics and Representation #Gender studies #Hegemony #Law #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Polity #Sociology
paper · doi:10.17813/1086-671x-29-4-469
openalex publication_date 2024/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Democracy is an ongoing process that involves society as a whole, not merely politics. Anti-gender politics challenges democratization in all areas of society. Therefore, a gendered theory of society capable of grasping the broader social logics of anti-gender politics is needed to understand the latter's challenges to societal democratization. Gender regime theory, in Sylvia Walby and Mieke Verloo's conceptualization, is proposed as the macrolevel theory of society that enhances our understanding of the gendered social relations that transnational and national anti-gender forces envision in their anti-democratic project of society. The analysis of anti-gender politics in the domains of economy, polity, violence, civil society, cathexis, and episteme, their interactions, and hegemon dynamics allows for an understanding of how anti-gender politics manifests in the different domains and how opportunities created for anti-gender projects in specific domains contribute to the development of “anti-gender regimes” and hinder societal democratization.