1st Edition

Protesting Gender The LGBTIQ Movement and its Opponents in Italy

By Anna Lavizzari Copyright 2020
200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Italy among political activists of the LGBTIQ movement and the traditionalist movement during the “anti-gender” campaign, this book provides a dynamic picture of their sustained interactions. Through an analysis of the contentious strategies, discourses, and performances of both the LGBTIQ and the traditionalist movements from a strategic interactionist... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Strategy, Performance and Gender: An Interactionist Perspective

3. Protesting Gender: Configurations and Gender Arenas in Italy

4. Players, Tactics and Arenas

5. Gender Panic! Framing and Discursive Strategies

6. Individual Patterns of Mobilization and Gender Identities

7. Conclusions

Biography

Anna Lavizzari is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy.