ANTI-GENDER BACKLASH & DEMOCRATIC PUSHBACK

Informazioni relative al progetto

PushBackLash

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101061687

DOI

10.3030/101061687

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 9 Giugno 2022

Data di avvio 1 Gennaio 2023

Data di completamento 31 Dicembre 2025

Finanziato da

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Costo totale

€ 2 168 131,25

Contributo UE

€ 2 158 756,00

Coordinato da

PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG
Austria

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Risultati finali

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.

Pubblicazioni

Other (11)

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

Autori: Isabelle Engeli and Tanith Gould
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: PushBackLash

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

Autori: Emilia Belknap, Isabelle Engeli
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: PushBackLash

Warum Demokratie auf Geschlechtergerechtigkeit basiert

Autori: Die Furche
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: Die Furche

Attraktive Frauen in der Berufswelt: Vorteil oder Hindernis?

Autori: Salzburger Nachrichten
Pubblicato in: Salzburger Nachrichten, 2025
Editore: Salzburger Nachrichten

Disability as Diversity

Autori: Gabi Lipska and Magda Szarota
Editore: PushBackLash

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

Autori: Salzburger Nachrichten
Pubblicato in: Salzburger Nachrichten, ISSN 1351-0510
Editore: Salzburger Nachrichter

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

Autori: Salzburger Nachrichten
Pubblicato in: Salzburger Nachrichten, 2025
Editore: Salzburger Nachrichten

Uni-Projekt erforscht Rückschritt bei Gleichstellung

Autori: ORF.at
Pubblicato in: ORF.t, 2023
Editore: ORF.at

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

Autori: Salzburger Nachrichten
Pubblicato in: 2024
Editore: Salzburger Nachrichten

Mehr als nur Frauen zählen

Autori: Cornelia Grobner
Pubblicato in: Die Presse, 2023
Editore: Die Presse

Startschuss für akademisches Großprojekt

Autori: Salzburger Landeskorrespondenz
Pubblicato in: 2023
Editore: Salzburg Land Media Center

Peer reviewed articles (9)

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

Autori: Zoe Lefkofridi, Carsten Wegscheider, Nadine Zwiener-Collins
Pubblicato in: Party Politics, 2025, ISSN 1354-0688
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13540688251332188

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

Autori: Zsuzsanna Vidra, Enikő Anna Virágh
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2024, ISSN 0144-333X
Editore: 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

Autori: Vera N. Beloshitzkaya
Pubblicato in: Current Psychology, 2025, ISSN 1046-1310
Editore: 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)

Autori: Lefkofridi, Z., Beloshitzkaya, V., Gorny, J., and L. Lotter
Pubblicato in: Politics and Governance, Numero 14, 2026, ISSN 2183-2463
Editore: Cogitatio Press
DOI: 10.17645/PAG.11716

Rethinking political space in Europe: the modernisation and globalisation dimensions

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

Threat Narratives in Anti-gender Movements' Online Presence

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

Gender, politics, and the market: evidence from Finland

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

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

Autori: Klaudia Koxha, Zoe Lefkofridi, Nadine Zwiener-Collins
Pubblicato in: Government and Opposition, Numero 60, 2025, ISSN 0017-257X
Editore: 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

Autori: Michael Hunklinger
Pubblicato in: European Politics and Society, 2025, ISSN 2374-5118
Editore: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2025.2576703

Book chapters (7)

Introduction: foundations of gender and politics

Autori: Zoe Lefkofridi
Pubblicato in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, 2026, ISBN 9781035322602
Editore: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035322619.00007

Gendered policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Autori: Matilde Ceron
Pubblicato in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, 2026
Editore: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035322619.00065

Feminist disability studies

Autori: Magda Szarota, Natalia Pamula
Pubblicato in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, 2026
Editore: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035322619.00023

Gender role questions in comparative European surveys: strengths and limitations

Autori: Kristi Winters, Juno Juliane Reichelt, Alexia Katsanidou
Pubblicato in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics, 2026
Editore: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035322619.00058

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

Autori: Vera Beloshitzkaya, Matilde Ceron, Zoe Lefkofridi
Pubblicato in: The Future of Europe, The 2024 European Parliament Elections, 2025
Editore: 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

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

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

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