Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe: „ Die Dynamik der gegenwärtigen Rechten / The Dynamics of the Contemporary Far Rights“
The talk is analysing the state of anti-gender movements in Europe, assessing the impacts of counter strategies by progressive actors. It argues that anti-gender movements are a new phenomenon in European politics which require new methods to study and different counter strategies from progressive forces.
Short biography:
Andrea Peto is a Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, a Doctor of Science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
She has been a guest professor at the universities of Toronto, Buenos Aires, Novi Sad, Stockholm and Frankfurt.
Her recent book is co-edited with Ayse Gül Altinay: Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories. Feminist Conversations of War, Genocide and Political Violence, Routledge, 2016.
She serves as an associate Editor for the European Journal of Women's Studies.
She contributed to the book: Gender as Symbolic Glue. The Position and Role of Conservative and Far Right Partiesin the Anti-Gender Mobilisation in Europe eds. Eszter Kovats, Maari Poim, FEPS, FES, Brussels, 2015. Downloadable: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/budapest/11382.pdf
