ANTI-GENDER BACKLASH & DEMOCRATIC PUSHBACK

Projektinformationen

PushBackLash

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 101061687

DOI

10.3030/101061687

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 9 Juni 2022

Startdatum 1 Januar 2023

Enddatum 31 Dezember 2025

Finanziert unter

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Gesamtkosten

€ 2 168 131,25

EU-Beitrag

€ 2 158 756,00

Koordiniert durch

PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG
Austria

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Leistungen

Documents, reports (23)

Integrated Report on the contribution of feminist theory and conceptual framework

Integrated Report on the contribution of feminist theory (including modern feminist frameworks) and intersectional analysis to democratic theory in the context of anti-gender and anti-feminist movements and conceptual framework (M8).

Final Data Management Plan

An updated Data Management Plan to be published at the end of the project.

Policy brief Mitigating the intersectional impact of COVID-19

Policy brief Mitigating the intersectional impact of COVID-19. The policy brief will be updated continously until the end of the project.

"Integrated report on ""participatory pushback tools"""

Integrated report on “participatory pushback tools”. Report on the process of design and implementation of the three theatre projects in the context of Universities and Erasmus BIP+ contexts, including their evaluation by participants and by the consortium, the resulting toolkit and recommendations for the design of future participatory interventions against the backlash. (M30)

Toolkit for participatory pushback

Toolkit for participatory pushback using Theatre of the Oppressed (M30)

Infographic effect of anti-gender discourse and counterstrategies
Policy brief on the gender backlash in Europe

This short policy brief summarises the first findings of the project.

Policy brief Gender violence on social media

Policy brief Gender violence on social media. The policy brief will be updated continously until the end of the project.

Toolkit for online pushback

Toolkit for online pushback. A practical toolkit for individual and collective actors working in the field of gender equality (M36)

Educational cartoons

Educational cartoons.1 series of 8 core topics related to feminism, gender equality, and intersectionality. See section “Communication activities (M11; M14; M17; M20; M23; M26; M29; M32)

Integrated report on online anti-gender equality strategies and counter strategies

Integrated report on online anti-gender equality strategies and counter strategies. This deliverable summarises the findings of Working Package 4. The report describes the spreading of issues, framing, and interactions of pro-gender and anti-gender actors online, offering a typology of mobilisation and counter-strategies on Twitter. It also provides concrete strategies for safe and effective work for those involved in feminist activism online. (M36)

Report of all Curation and Sharing activities
Integrated report on the dynamics of issue attention toward equality+ across time and space

Integrated report on the dynamics of issue attention toward equality+ across time and space. The deliverable summarizes the main findings of the WP along two main aims: (1) Descriptive: What are the overall patterns in issue attention among the pro-equality coalition(s) and the “anti-gender” coalition(s)? How have these patterns evolved? What are the similarities and variations across issues, countries, and institutional venues; (2) Causal: What are the mechanisms that drive issue coupling, issue bundling, and issue traveling? What are the conditions and drivers that lead to successful strategy? (M36)

Policy brief attacks against gender equality across time and space

Policy brief attacks against gender equality across time and space. The policy brief will be updated continously until the end of the project.

Project Progress Report

A short report describing the progress of the project.

Integrated Report on the evolution of gender attitudes and perceptions

Integrated Report on stability and change of gender attitudes and social perceptions.The deliverable summarises the diverse findings of the working package on the public opinion on gender equality, feminism(s), and democracy, and how these change within the individual, over space and time, and through gender (un)equal contexts. (M36)

Integrated report on intersectional inequalities and activism

Integrated report on intersectional inequalities and activism. Report on use of intersectional inequalities in discursive strategies, and how they are understood and experienced by disabled feminists in Hungary & Poland; assessment of existing survey data and recommendations for future survey design. (M24)

Integrated report counter-strategies to anti-gender and anti-feminism discourse

Integrated report counter-strategies to anti-gender and anti-feminism discourse. Results from large-N cross-country survey (WP2) and results from experiments to discuss ways to counter act anti-gender and anti-feminist discursive strategies. (M36)

Updated Data Management Plan

An updated version of the Data Management Plan to be published mid-project

Integrated report on the intersectional impact of the COVID-19 crisis on gender roles and women

Integrated report on the intersectional impact of the COVID-19 crisis on gender roles and women. The aims of the report are three-fold: 1) to provide an (annotated) systematic overview of the existing data and research on gender and Covid-19 to help facilitating future research on the topic; 2) to describe the impact of the pandemic on gender equality and gendered outcomes (including gender roles and stereotypes using existing secondary data, as well as the survey data collected in T2.2; and 3) to discuss how public and political discourses around Covid-19 were gendered and used anti-gender rhetorics. (M30)

Infographic ideological map of European societies on gender equality issues across times and space
"Integrated report on ""pushback strategies"""

Integrated report on “pushback strategies”. As conceptualized and implemented inter alia by disabled feminists, including a typology of those strategies and identification of differences and commonalities and a catalogue of recommendations (M28).

Infographic intersectional activism

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Website and social media accounts

Website and social media accounts. Project website, Twitter and Instagram accounts, continuously updated through the lifespan of the project (M1-M36).

YouTube videos and podcast series

YouTube videos and podcast series. A minimum of 6 YouTube videos (including ‘Online Gender Cafes’), and a minimum of 3 podcasts will be published from month 6 throughout the lifespan of the project (M6-36)

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

Other (3)

Pre-registration of experiment
Risk assessment plan
Updated plan for dissemination and exploitation of results

Updated plan for dissemination and exploitation of results. (M2; regularly updated). This plan will also include a detailed description of the specific impact indicators that will be used to measure the projects impact. It will include impact targets that have been agreed with the consortium members as well as the project officer together with a indicative timing for reaching these.

Veröffentlichungen

Other (11)

The Right to Choose Abortion: Pushing Back Against Attacks in Europe

Autoren: Isabelle Engeli and Tanith Gould
Veröffentlicht in: 2024
Herausgeber: PushBackLash

Policy Brief 2: Attacks against Gender Equality across Time and Space -2.1 Shifting Narratives: Gender Equality in Party Manifestos (2010-2022)

Autoren: Emilia Belknap, Isabelle Engeli
Veröffentlicht in: 2024
Herausgeber: PushBackLash

Warum Demokratie auf Geschlechtergerechtigkeit basiert

Autoren: Die Furche
Veröffentlicht in: 2024
Herausgeber: Die Furche

Attraktive Frauen in der Berufswelt: Vorteil oder Hindernis?

Autoren: Salzburger Nachrichten
Veröffentlicht in: Salzburger Nachrichten, 2025
Herausgeber: Salzburger Nachrichten

Disability as Diversity

Autoren: Gabi Lipska and Magda Szarota
Herausgeber: PushBackLash

International Women's Day 2023/report on situation of women in AT

Autoren: Salzburger Nachrichten
Veröffentlicht in: Salzburger Nachrichten, ISSN 1351-0510
Herausgeber: Salzburger Nachrichter

“Wie die Corona-Pandemie die Gleichstellung von Frauen zurückgeworfen hat”

Autoren: Salzburger Nachrichten
Veröffentlicht in: Salzburger Nachrichten, 2025
Herausgeber: Salzburger Nachrichten

Uni-Projekt erforscht Rückschritt bei Gleichstellung

Autoren: ORF.at
Veröffentlicht in: ORF.t, 2023
Herausgeber: ORF.at

Warum eine Professorin an der Uni Salzburg den Fokus auf das Genderthema legt

Autoren: Salzburger Nachrichten
Veröffentlicht in: 2024
Herausgeber: Salzburger Nachrichten

Mehr als nur Frauen zählen

Autoren: Cornelia Grobner
Veröffentlicht in: Die Presse, 2023
Herausgeber: Die Presse

Startschuss für akademisches Großprojekt

Autoren: Salzburger Landeskorrespondenz
Veröffentlicht in: 2023
Herausgeber: Salzburg Land Media Center

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Gendered dynamics in representation: Examining candidates' policy congruence with parties and voters

Autoren: Zoe Lefkofridi, Carsten Wegscheider, Nadine Zwiener-Collins
Veröffentlicht in: Party Politics, 2025, ISSN 1354-0688
Herausgeber: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13540688251332188

(In)visibilized? Roma in social, family and workfare policy discourses in the authoritarian neoliberal context of Hungary

Autoren: Zsuzsanna Vidra, Enikő Anna Virágh
Veröffentlicht in: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2024, ISSN 0144-333X
Herausgeber: Emerald
DOI: 10.1108/IJSSP-08-2024-0373

Theorizing and testing the effect of parental conflict resolution modes on youth gender attitudes: evidence from the NLSY79-NLSY79-YA

Autoren: Vera N. Beloshitzkaya
Veröffentlicht in: Current Psychology, 2025, ISSN 1046-1310
Herausgeber: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S12144-025-08191-2

Gender Equality as Foundational to Democracy: Theory and Evidence of Gendered Political Culture(s)

Autoren: Lefkofridi, Z., Beloshitzkaya, V., Gorny, J., and L. Lotter
Veröffentlicht in: Politics and Governance, Ausgabe 14, 2026, ISSN 2183-2463
Herausgeber: Cogitatio Press
DOI: 10.17645/PAG.11716

Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions

Autoren: Alexia Katsanidou, Nils Jungmann
Veröffentlicht in: Journal of European Public Policy, 2025, ISSN 1350-1763
Herausgeber: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2025.2501091

Threat Narratives in Anti-gender Movements' Online Presence

Autoren: Margarita Zervoulakou, Rebekka Kesberg, Liza Mügge
Veröffentlicht in: Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science, Ausgabe 59, 2025, ISSN 2414-6633
Herausgeber: International Association for Political Science Students
DOI: 10.22151/POLITIKON.42025.3

Gender, politics, and the market: evidence from Finland

Autoren: Viktoria Jansesberger, Zoe Lefkofridi
Veröffentlicht in: European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2025, ISSN 2515-1088
Herausgeber: Bristol University Press
DOI: 10.1332/25151088Y2024D000000069

Government and Opposition on the Road to EU Accession: Responsibility, Responsiveness and the Salience of Gender Equality

Autoren: Klaudia Koxha, Zoe Lefkofridi, Nadine Zwiener-Collins
Veröffentlicht in: Government and Opposition, Ausgabe 60, 2025, ISSN 0017-257X
Herausgeber: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/GOV.2025.12

‘Who’s that man?’ Gender-based online hate and harassment in the context of the 2024 European Parliament elections in Germany

Autoren: Michael Hunklinger
Veröffentlicht in: European Politics and Society, 2025, ISSN 2374-5118
Herausgeber: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2025.2576703

Book chapters (7)

Introduction: foundations of gender and politics

Autoren: Zoe Lefkofridi
Veröffentlicht in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, 2026, ISBN 9781035322602
Herausgeber: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035322619.00007

Gendered policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Autoren: Matilde Ceron
Veröffentlicht in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, 2026
Herausgeber: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035322619.00065

Feminist disability studies

Autoren: Magda Szarota, Natalia Pamula
Veröffentlicht in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, 2026
Herausgeber: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035322619.00023

Gender role questions in comparative European surveys: strengths and limitations

Autoren: Kristi Winters, Juno Juliane Reichelt, Alexia Katsanidou
Veröffentlicht in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, 2026
Herausgeber: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035322619.00058

Gendered Shades of Right? Gender+ Equality Issues in the Economic Right EP2024 Political Agenda

Autoren: Vera Beloshitzkaya, Matilde Ceron, Zoe Lefkofridi
Veröffentlicht in: The Future of Europe, The 2024 European Parliament Elections, 2025
Herausgeber: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89455-8_20

Kognitive Dissonanz aufgrund gelebter Realitäten? Die Auswirkungen der Covid-19-Lockdownpolitik auf Österreichs Geschlechterrollenbilder

Autoren: Lara Zwittlinger, Nadine Zwiener-Collins, Zoe Lefkofridi
Veröffentlicht in: Die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die österreichische Gesellschaft, 2024
Herausgeber: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
DOI: 10.5771/9783748942696-229

Approaches to measurement and analysis of intersectionality in survey research: strengths and blind spots

Autoren: Vera Beloshitzkaya, Ana Maria Miranda Mora, Enikő Anna Virágh, Zoe Lefkofridi
Veröffentlicht in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, 2026
Herausgeber: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035322619.00012