Join us for a conversation with Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk!

We will be discussing their monograph, Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment (Routledge 2021), which analyzes the “opportunistic synergy” between antigender movements and populist political actors.

“This book seeks to explain the growing visibility and power of anti-gender movements, discourses and campaigns, and to conceptualize the relationship between anti-gender actors and right-wing populist parties in Poland and beyond. […] In recent years, abortion rights, sex education and gender studies, gay marriage, transnational treaties concerning genderbased violence have all come under attack from what appears to be an increasingly influential and coherent global anti-gender movement. […] Polish anti-gender
campaigns are a part of a broader resurgence of rightwing extremism and religious fundamentalism, a coordinated transnational effort to undermine liberal values by democratic means.”

Agnieszka Graff is a Professor of Cultural and Gender Studies at the University of Warsaw. She is a graduate of Amherst College and Oxford University, holds a PhD in literature (2000) and a postdoctoral degree (habilitacja) in cultural studies (2014), both granted by the
University of Warsaw. Her research interests include gender studies, feminist history, nationalism and public discourse on gender. She is
also the author of four books of feminist essays in Polish: Świat bez kobiet (2001, 2011,2021); Rykoszetem (2008), Magma (2010, Matka
feministka (2014).

Elżbieta Korolczuk, PhD is an Associate Professor of Sociology working at Södertörn University, Sweden and at the American Studies
Center in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include social movements and the politics of reproduction. She has conducted
research on civil society, parental activism and the social and legal implications of assisted reproduction in Poland, as well as on
conservative mobilization targeting gender equality and feminism. Korolczuk published several volumes on social movements, civil
society and parenthood in Central Eastern Europe. She is also a commentator and a long-time women’s and human rights activist.

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