1st Edition
Religion, Gender, and Populism in the Mediterranean
This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the intersections of religion and gender in times of populism across the EU-Mediterranean. The chapters explore tensions and issues related to religion and gender in nations including Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, and Israel/Palestine. Shifting attention from the European Union to the Mediterranean area allows the inclusion of countries whose history is significantly interwoven, taking into account the legacies of colonialism, the effects of post-colonialism, and the role of the EU in relation to gender-related issues in particular. The volume investigates not only country-specific cases but highlights similarities and differences in the region and aims to understand how the interconnections influence the issues at stake. It draws together countries with non-Christian majoritarian religions, with different political regimes, and where feminism and women’s movements have different shapes, histories, and relationships with religion. The book will appeal to scholars interested in the entanglements of gender, religion, and populism from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, and gender studies.
Introduction: Gender, Religion and Populism in the EU-related Mediterranean
Alberta Giorgi, Júlia Garraio, and Teresa Toldy
1 “Gender ideology” in Portugal: the Circulation and Political Performance of Anti-Gender Discourses in Society and Politics
Júlia Garraio, Teresa Toldy, Alexandre Sousa Carvalho, Sofia José Santos, Inês Amaral
2. Religious Feminists Facing Populism in Italy
Alberta Giorgi
3. Anti-Genderism in Croatia - Contextual Specifics
Jadranka Rebeka Anic
4. Gender Equality for Show: Serbian Performative Europeanisation
Adriana Zaharijević and Zorana Antonijević
5. Religion and Gender in Bosnian-Herzegovinian Ethno-Populist Stabilocracy
Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović and Amila Ždralović
6. Gender, Religion, and Populism in Contemporary Greece: The Cohabitation Agreement Debate
Niki Papageorgiou
7. Gender Politics under Autocratization and Two Decades of Women’s Movement in Turkey
Bilge Yabanci and Chiara Maritato
8. Critical Religious Selves: Muslim Palestinian Women Caught Between Religious Patriarchy and a Hegemonic State
Nahed Ashqar-Sharary and Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder
9. Gender, Religion and Populism in the EU-related Mediterranean - taking Stock and Going Further
Alberta Giorgi, Julia Garraio, Teresa Toldy
Biography
Alberta Giorgi is a senior assistant professor in the Sociology of Cultural Processes and Communication at the University of Bergamo, Italy, and an associate researcher in the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Júlia Garraio is a researcher in the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Teresa Toldy is full professor at Fernando Pessoa University and a researcher in the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
