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Cristian Norocel

Ov Cristian Norocel

Director of Doctoral Studies | Docent | Senior lecturer

Cristian Norocel

Anti-gender politics in Finland and Romania

Author

  • Ov Cristian Norocel
  • Katarina Pettersson

Summary, in English

This study examines the articulation of anti-gender politics in the parliamentary debates centred on two citizens’ initiatives in Finland and Romania. Although different in their endeavours (in Finland, supporting equal marriage rights; in Romania, attempting to legislate pre-emptively against them), these citizens’ initiatives resulted in significant defeats for the wider anti-gender campaigns in these countries. Examining closely the parliamentary debates ensuing these proposals, we evidence how anti-gender politics developed in ways specific to each examined polity and served as a key vehicle for different manners of retrogressive mobilisation, which bypassed left–right ideological cleavages and party loyalty. We scrutinise critically the discursive scenarios that coalesce in anti-gender politics in the two countries, and we map out both the commonalities and differences between the antithetic narrative scenarios, which hinge on the position of the child within a heteronormative nuclear family and the depiction of marriage equality as a harbinger of an impending societal collapse.

Department/s

  • Gender Studies
  • LU Profile Area: Human rights

Publishing year

2025

Language

English

Pages

189-206

Publication/Series

European Journal of Politics and Gender

Volume

8

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Topic

  • Political Science (excluding Peace and Conflict Studies)
  • Gender Studies
  • Other Social Sciences

Keywords

  • Anti-genderism
  • politics
  • Finland
  • Romania
  • LGBT rights
  • referandum
  • citizens' initiative

Status

Published

Project

  • An ethnographic exploration of anti-genderism: ideas, identities and political practices in the Nordic region

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2515-1088