Protesting Gender

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Italy among political activists of the LGBTIQ movement and the 'anti-gender' campaign, this book provides a dynamic picture of their sustained interactions, revealing the centrality of gender to the analysis of this struggle over social and normative change.

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

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