1st Edition

Religion, Gender, and Populism in the Mediterranean

Edited By Alberta Giorgi, Júlia Garraio, Teresa Toldy Copyright 2024
216 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.